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Johannes Bauer, 31.05.2014 13:09:
> Lucky for you 2.7.5 isn't all that different from Py3 and most of it
> will apply. You'll be missing out on a bunch of cool features (arbitrary
> precision ints

Py2 has them as well (although they are called long). 1 << 300 gives the
right answer in both Py2 and Py3, whether the result is a "long" or an "int".


> int division operator

AFAIR, that was added in Py2.5, so a book about Py2.7 should mention it
somewhere.


> real Unicode support

Now, that is really something that has improved in Py3, and certainly a
reason for many people to prefer Py3 over Py2.

Stefan