[Python-checkins] gh-92417: `stdtypes` docs: delete discussion of Python 2 differences (GH-92423)

serhiy-storchaka webhook-mailer at python.org
Sun May 8 09:23:27 EDT 2022


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8efda1e7c6343b1671d93837bf2c146e4cf77bbf
commit: 8efda1e7c6343b1671d93837bf2c146e4cf77bbf
branch: main
author: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood at Gmail.com>
committer: serhiy-storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>
date: 2022-05-08T16:23:22+03:00
summary:

gh-92417: `stdtypes` docs: delete discussion of Python 2 differences (GH-92423)

Given that 2.7 has now been end-of-life for two and a half years,
I don't think we need such a detailed explanation here anymore of
the differences between Python 2 and Python 3.

files:
M Doc/library/stdtypes.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 44447400c29bc..065afb8ae6038 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -2573,16 +2573,6 @@ The representation of bytes objects uses the literal format (``b'...'``)
 since it is often more useful than e.g. ``bytes([46, 46, 46])``.  You can
 always convert a bytes object into a list of integers using ``list(b)``.
 
-.. note::
-   For Python 2.x users: In the Python 2.x series, a variety of implicit
-   conversions between 8-bit strings (the closest thing 2.x offers to a
-   built-in binary data type) and Unicode strings were permitted. This was a
-   backwards compatibility workaround to account for the fact that Python
-   originally only supported 8-bit text, and Unicode text was a later
-   addition. In Python 3.x, those implicit conversions are gone - conversions
-   between 8-bit binary data and Unicode text must be explicit, and bytes and
-   string objects will always compare unequal.
-
 
 .. _typebytearray:
 



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