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Fixed #20830 -- Clarified that Django uses a customized version of six. 

Thanks glarrain for the suggestion.
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Daley Chetwynd 2013-09-23 15:17:15 +01:00 committed by Tim Graham
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@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ to stay compatible with Python 2. But authors of pluggable applications are
encouraged to use the same porting strategy as Django itself.
Writing compatible code is much easier if you target Python ≥ 2.6. Django 1.5
introduces compatibility tools such as :mod:`django.utils.six`. For
convenience, forwards-compatible aliases were introduced in Django 1.4.2. If
your application takes advantage of these tools, it will require Django ≥
1.4.2.
introduces compatibility tools such as :mod:`django.utils.six`, which is a
customized version of the :mod:`six module <six>`. For convenience,
forwards-compatible aliases were introduced in Django 1.4.2. If your
application takes advantage of these tools, it will require Django ≥ 1.4.2.
Obviously, writing compatible source code adds some overhead, and that can
cause frustration. Django's developers have found that attempting to write
@ -328,8 +328,8 @@ Writing compatible code with six
six_ is the canonical compatibility library for supporting Python 2 and 3 in
a single codebase. Read its documentation!
:mod:`six` is bundled with Django as of version 1.4.2. You can import it as
:mod:`django.utils.six`.
A :mod:`customized version of six <django.utils.six>` is bundled with Django
as of version 1.4.2. You can import it as ``django.utils.six``.
Here are the most common changes required to write compatible code.
@ -364,8 +364,9 @@ Import ``six.moves.xrange`` wherever you use ``xrange``.
Moved modules
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Some modules were renamed in Python 3. The :mod:`django.utils.six.moves
<six.moves>` module provides a compatible location to import them.
Some modules were renamed in Python 3. The ``django.utils.six.moves``
module (based on the :mod:`Python six.moves module <six.moves>`) provides a
compatible location to import them.
PY2
~~~
@ -380,10 +381,11 @@ function.
.. module:: django.utils.six
Customizations of six
---------------------
Django customized version of six
--------------------------------
The version of six bundled with Django includes a few extras.
The version of six bundled with Django (``django.utils.six``) includes a few
extras.
.. function:: assertRaisesRegex(testcase, *args, **kwargs)