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| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/compat/py3k.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/compat/py3k.py b/numpy/compat/py3k.py index c9ed9d52c..90e17d6d6 100644 --- a/numpy/compat/py3k.py +++ b/numpy/compat/py3k.py @@ -1,9 +1,15 @@ """ -Python 3 compatibility tools. +Python 3.X compatibility tools. -""" -from __future__ import division, absolute_import, print_function +While this file was originally intented for Python 2 -> 3 transition, +it is now used to create a compatibility layer between different +minor versions of Python 3. +While the active version of numpy may not support a given version of python, we +allow downstream libraries to continue to use these shims for forward +compatibility with numpy while they transition their code to newer versions of +Python. +""" __all__ = ['bytes', 'asbytes', 'isfileobj', 'getexception', 'strchar', 'unicode', 'asunicode', 'asbytes_nested', 'asunicode_nested', 'asstr', 'open_latin1', 'long', 'basestring', 'sixu', |