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support Python 3.0. Avoid using language features added in 2.5 or 2.6, or
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features deprecated in Python 3.0. (You can check v3 compatibility using
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support Python 2.7 and 3.0. Avoid using language features added in 2.5,
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such as ``addCleanup`` or ``assertRaises``, or on functions that take only
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and might vary over time (e.g. the ``commit`` API) then we prefer to pass an
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object rather than a bag of positional and/or keyword args. If you have
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an arbitrary set of keys and values that are different with each use (e.g.
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string interpolation inputs) then again that should not be mixed in with
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the regular positional/keyword args, it seems like a different category of
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``__call__``, ``__int__``, ``__getitem__``) unless the class you're
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implementing really does act like the builtin class, in semantics and
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For example, old code lets you say ``file_id in inv`` but we no longer
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consider this good style. Instead, say more explicitly
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``inv.has_id(file_id)``.
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introspection of other objects. All the state needed to present the
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* If importing a module, not an attribute, and the module is a top-level
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module (i.e. has no dots in the name), then it's ok to use the builtin
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``__import__``, e.g. ``__import__(module_name)``.
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