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<span id="future-future-statement-definitions"></span><h1><a class="reference internal" href="#module-__future__" title="__future__: Future statement definitions"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">__future__</span></code></a> — Future statement definitions<a class="headerlink" href="#module-__future__" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<p><a class="reference internal" href="#module-__future__" title="__future__: Future statement definitions"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">__future__</span></code></a> is a real module, and serves three purposes:</p>
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2.1 at least yield runtime exceptions (the import of <a class="reference internal" href="#module-__future__" title="__future__: Future statement definitions"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">__future__</span></code></a> will
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— or were — made mandatory. This is a form of executable documentation, and
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can be inspected programmatically via importing <a class="reference internal" href="#module-__future__" title="__future__: Future statement definitions"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">__future__</span></code></a> and examining
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5-tuples of the same form as <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#sys.version_info" title="sys.version_info"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sys.version_info</span></code></a>:</p>
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<p><em>OptionalRelease</em> records the first release in which the feature was accepted.</p>
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dynamically compiled code. This flag is stored in the <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">compiler_flag</span></code>
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attribute on <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_Feature</span></code> instances.</p>
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<p>No feature description will ever be deleted from <a class="reference internal" href="#module-__future__" title="__future__: Future statement definitions"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">__future__</span></code></a>. Since its
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