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.. _python3-support:
Python 3 Support
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Flask, its dependencies, and most Flask extensions support Python 3.
You should start using Python 3 for your next project,
but there are a few things to be aware of.
You need to use Python 3.3 or higher. 3.2 and older are *not* supported.
You should use the latest versions of all Flask-related packages.
Flask 0.10 and Werkzeug 0.9 were the first versions to introduce Python 3 support.
Python 3 changed how unicode and bytes are handled,
which complicated how low level code handles HTTP data.
This mainly affects WSGI middleware interacting with the WSGI ``environ`` data.
Werkzeug wraps that information in high-level helpers,
so encoding issues should not effect you.
The majority of the upgrade work is in the lower-level libraries like
Flask and Werkzeug, not the high-level application code.
For example, all of the examples in the Flask repository work on both Python 2 and 3
and did not require a single line of code changed.