Installation

pip install robotframework-python3

Differences in Python 3

Python 3 makes a clear distinction between str for textual data and bytes for binary data. This affects the Standard Test Libraries and their Keywords:

• str arguments don’t work where bytes are expected, like writing to binary file streams or comparing with other bytes.

• bytes don’t work where str is expected, like writing to text mode streams or comparing with another str.

• Reading from binary streams always returns bytes.

• Reading from text streams always returns str.

You can use the following keywords to explicitly create bytes:

• BuiltIn.Convert To Bytes

• String.Encode String To Bytes

I extended Process.Start Process with a binary_mode argument. By default the process streams are opened in text mode. You can change this with:

binary_mode=True

Collections.Get Dictionary Keys normally sorts the keys. I disabled key sorting in Python 3, because most builtin types are not comparable to each other. This further affects Get Dictionary Values and Get Dictionary Items. I still need to find a better solution… Maybe imitate Python 2 sorting? Any suggestions? :)