diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'README.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -51,6 +51,20 @@ To go beyond the basics, [comprehensive documentation is available](http://www.c * [Bug tracker](https://bugs.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup/) * [Complete changelog](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonardr/beautifulsoup/bs4/view/head:/CHANGELOG) +# Note on Python 2 sunsetting + +Since 2012, Beautiful Soup has been developed as a Python 2 library +which is automatically converted to Python 3 code as necessary. This +makes it impossible to take advantages of some features of Python +3. + +For this reason, I plan to discontinue Beautiful Soup's Python 2 +support at some point after January 1, 2021: one year after the sunset +date for Python 2 itself. Beyond that point, new Beautiful Soup +development will exclusively target Python 3. Of course, older +releases of Beautiful Soup, which support both versions, will continue +to be available. + # Supporting the project If you use Beautiful Soup as part of your professional work, please consider a @@ -79,10 +93,10 @@ Beautiful Soup supports unit test discovery from the project root directory: ``` ``` - $ python -m unittest discover -s bs4 # Python 2.7 and up + $ python -m unittest discover -s bs4 ``` If you checked out the source tree, you should see a script in the home directory called test-all-versions. This script will run the unit -tests under Python 2.7, then create a temporary Python 3 conversion of +tests under Python 2, then create a temporary Python 3 conversion of the source and run the unit tests again under Python 3. |