[Tutor] Python 3 - bugs or installation problem

[Mark Lawrence]

On 05/03/2015 08:10, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 05/03/15 01:53, Phil wrote:
>> I hope this is not another embarrassingly obvious answer to a simple
>> question.
>>
>> Python 3, under Kubuntu.
>>
>> xrange() fails whereas range() is accepted. Could this be an
>> installation problem?
>
> There are many incompatible changes in Python v3 compared with v2.
> Some are obvious like the removal of xrange and raw_input and a few
> others. Some are slightly more subtle like the change of print from a
> statement to a function. Still others are simply name changes to improve
> consistency of naming.
>
> The standard library has had a major makeover too and many
> modules have been reorganised and renamed.
>
> If you are moving to v3 you need to keep the documentation
> handy for the first few weeks to quickly check errors to
> see if its a bug or a feature!
>

Starting here https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html

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Mark Lawrence