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<h1 class="title">Python compatibility</h1>
<p>PyPy implements the Python language version 2.7.10. It supports all of the core
language, passing Python test suite (with minor modifications that were
already accepted in the main python in newer versions). It supports most
of the commonly used Python <a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python.org/library/">standard library modules</a>; details below.</p>
<p>PyPy has <strong>alpha/beta-level</strong> support for the <a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python.org/c-api/">CPython C API</a>, however,
this feature is not yet complete. We strongly advise use of <a class="reference external" href="http://cffi.readthedocs.org/">CFFI</a>
a bit of effort to work, but there are known success stories. Check out
PyPy blog for updates, as well as the <a class="reference external" href="https://bitbucket.org/pypy/compatibility/wiki/Home">Compatibility Wiki</a>.</p>
<p>C extensions need to be recompiled for PyPy in order to work. Depending on
your build system, it might work out of the box or will be slightly harder.</p>
<p>Standard library modules supported by PyPy. Note that large parts of python
library are implemented in pure python, so they don't have to be listed
there. Please just check if it imports. If it imports, it should work.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">__builtin__, __pypy__, _ast, _cffi_backend, _codecs, _collections, _continuation, _csv, _file, _hashlib, _io, _locale, _lsprof, _md5, _minimal_curses, _multibytecodec, _multiprocessing, _numpypy, _pickle_support, _pypyjson, _random, _rawffi, _sha, _socket, _sre, _ssl, _struct, _testing, _warnings, _weakref, array, binascii, bz2, cStringIO, cmath, cppyy, cpyext, crypt, errno, exceptions, fcntl, gc, imp, itertools, marshal, math, mmap, operator, parser, posix, pwd, pyexpat, pypyjit, select, signal, symbol, sys, termios, thread, time, token, unicodedata, zipimport, zlib</tt></li>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">cPickle, ctypes, datetime, dbm, _functools, grp, readline, resource, sqlite3, syslog</tt></li>
</ul>
<p>All modules that are pure python in CPython of course work.</p>
<p>Numpy support is not complete. We maintain our own fork of numpy for now, further instructions can be found at <a class="reference external" href="https://bitbucket.org/pypy/numpy.git">https://bitbucker.org/pypy/numpy.git</a>.</p>
<p>Python libraries known to work under PyPy (the list is not exhaustive).
A community maintained <a class="reference external" href="https://bitbucket.org/pypy/compatibility/wiki/Home">compatibility wiki</a> is hosted on bitbucket:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>ctypes</li>
<li>django</li>
<li>sqlalchemy</li>
<li>flask</li>
<li>pylons</li>
<li>divmod's nevow</li>
<li>pyglet</li>
<li>Pillow (the PIL fork)</li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/amauryfa/lxml/tree/cffi/">lxml</a></li>
<p>The main difference that is not going to be fixed is that PyPy does
not support refcounting semantics. The following code won't fill the
file immediately, but only after a certain period of time, when the GC
does a collection:</p>
<div class="syntax python"><pre><span class="nb">open</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"filename"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">"w"</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">write</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"stuff"</span><span class="p">)</span><br/></pre></div>
<p>The proper fix is</p>
<div class="syntax python"><pre><span class="n">f</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">open</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"filename"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">"w"</span><span class="p">)</span><br/><span class="n">f</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">write</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"stuff"</span><span class="p">)</span><br/><span class="n">f</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">close</span><span class="p">()</span><br/></pre></div>
<p>or using the <tt class="docutils literal">with</tt> keyword</p>
<div class="syntax python"><pre><span class="k">with</span> <span class="nb">open</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"filename"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">"w"</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">f</span><span class="p">:</span><br/> <span class="n">f</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">write</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"stuff"</span><span class="p">)</span><br/></pre></div>
<p>Similarly, remember that you must <tt class="docutils literal">close()</tt> a non-exhausted
generator in order to have its pending <tt class="docutils literal">finally</tt> or <tt class="docutils literal">with</tt>
clauses executed immediately:</p>
<div class="syntax python"><pre><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">mygen</span><span class="p">():</span><br/> <span class="k">with</span> <span class="n">foo</span><span class="p">:</span><br/> <span class="k">yield</span> <span class="mi">42</span><br/><br/><span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">mygen</span><span class="p">():</span><br/> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">:</span><br/> <span class="k">break</span> <span class="c"># foo.__exit__ is not run immediately!</span><br/><br/><span class="c"># fixed version:</span><br/><span class="n">gen</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">mygen</span><span class="p">()</span><br/><span class="k">try</span><span class="p">:</span><br/> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">gen</span><span class="p">:</span><br/> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">42</span><span class="p">:</span><br/> <span class="k">break</span><br/><span class="k">finally</span><span class="p">:</span><br/> <span class="n">gen</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">close</span><span class="p">()</span><br/></pre></div>
<p>More generally, <tt class="docutils literal">__del__()</tt> methods are not executed as predictively
as on CPython: they run “some time later” in PyPy (or not at all if
the program finishes running in the meantime). See <a class="reference external" href="http://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cpython_differences.html#differences-related-to-garbage-collection-strategies">more details
here</a>.</p>
<p>A more complete list of known differences is available at <a class="reference external" href="http://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cpython_differences.html">our dev site</a>.</p>
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