wand.compat — Compatibility layer

This module provides several subtle things to support multiple Python versions (2.6, 2.7, 3.2–3.5) and VM implementations (CPython, PyPy).

wand.compat.PY3 = True

(bool) Whether it is Python 3.x or not.

wand.compat.binary(string, var=None)

Makes string to str in Python 2. Makes string to bytes in Python 3.

Parameters:

• string (bytes, str, unicode) – a string to cast it to binary_type
• var (str) – an optional variable name to be used for error message

wand.compat.binary_type

alias of builtins.bytes

wand.compat.encode_filename(filename)

If filename is a text_type, encode it to binary_type according to filesystem’s default encoding.

wand.compat.file_types

alias of io.RawIOBase

wand.compat.string_type

alias of builtins.str

wand.compat.text_type

alias of builtins.str

wand.compat.xrange

alias of builtins.range