[Python-checkins] [3.9] gh-92417: `stdtypes` docs: delete discussion of Python 2 differences (GH-92423) (GH-92474)
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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/0cd0d6bf488662e24e1e4f3b4ffca3542382a47a
commit: 0cd0d6bf488662e24e1e4f3b4ffca3542382a47a
branch: 3.9
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-05-08T08:26:50-07:00
summary:
[3.9] gh-92417: `stdtypes` docs: delete discussion of Python 2 differences (GH-92423) (GH-92474)
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.
(cherry picked from commit 8efda1e7c6343b1671d93837bf2c146e4cf77bbf)
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood at Gmail.com>
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:serhiy-storchaka
files:
M Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 1cba75084b04b..2892486757e14 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -2502,16 +2502,6 @@ 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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