{"categories":[{"label":"Python Modules","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development-libraries-python-modules/18"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Eight provides a compatibility layer that lets you write Python 3 code and run it on Python 2.7 with minimal changes, offering Python 3 names and behaviors as backports.","skillfed_tags":["legacy-python","python2-compat"],"use_cases":["Maintain a single codebase that runs on both Python 2.7 and Python 3 without conditional imports or version checks.","Port Python 3 code to Python 2.7 environments where migration is not yet possible.","Wrap standard input/output to handle text consistently across Python 2 and 3 in legacy applications.","Decode command-line arguments and environment variables uniformly across Python versions in existing tools."],"what_it_does":"Eight is a lightweight Python 2\u20133 compatibility layer that lets you write code targeting Python 3.3+ while running it on Python 2.7 without code changes. It backports Python 3 builtins (like print as a function, new-style division, and unicode literals) and renamed modules (queue, configparser, etc.) to their Python 2 equivalents, and can optionally wrap standard I/O and environment variables to behave like Python 3.\n\nThe package depends only on future and installs as a pure-Python wheel. It is designed to be a lighter alternative to six or python-future, with an explicit bias toward Python 3: removing eight from your code leaves it functioning normally on Python 3. However, the project has been abandoned since 2021-03-16, making this relevant only for maintaining legacy systems.","worth_installing":"No, unless you are actively maintaining a Python 2.7 codebase that cannot be migrated. The package is abandoned (last release 2021-03-16), and no security updates are forthcoming. For new projects, use Python 3 directly. For legacy systems, consider migrating to Python 3 or use a more actively maintained compatibility layer if absolutely necessary."},"id":"eight","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/eight","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/eight.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/eight/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2021-03-16","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"eight","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"Python 2 to the power of 3. A lightweight porting helper library."},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":139594,"position":11296,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.0.1"}