docs: cleanup for Python 3

Author: henryiii

README.rst

@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ Goodies
 In addition to the core functionality, pybind11 provides some extra
 goodies:
 
-- Python 2.7, 3.5+, and PyPy/PyPy3 7.3 are supported with an
-  implementation-agnostic interface.
+- Python 3.5+, and PyPy3 7.3 are supported with an
+  implementation-agnostic interface (pybind11 2.9 for Python 2).
 
 - It is possible to bind C++11 lambda functions with captured
   variables. The lambda capture data is stored inside the resulting

docs/advanced/cast/strings.rst

@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
 Strings, bytes and Unicode conversions
 ######################################
 
-.. note::
-
-    This section discusses string handling in terms of Python 3 strings. For
-    Python 2.7, replace all occurrences of ``str`` with ``unicode`` and
-    ``bytes`` with ``str``.  Python 2.7 users may find it best to use ``from
-    __future__ import unicode_literals`` to avoid unintentionally using ``str``
-    instead of ``unicode``.
-
 Passing Python strings to C++
 =============================
 
@@ -58,9 +50,9 @@ Passing bytes to C++
 --------------------
 
 A Python ``bytes`` object will be passed to C++ functions that accept
-``std::string`` or ``char*`` *without* conversion.  On Python 3, in order to
-make a function *only* accept ``bytes`` (and not ``str``), declare it as taking
-a ``py::bytes`` argument.
+``std::string`` or ``char*`` *without* conversion.  In order to make a function
+*only* accept ``bytes`` (and not ``str``), declare it as taking a ``py::bytes``
+argument.
 
 
 Returning C++ strings to Python
@@ -204,11 +196,6 @@ decoded to Python ``str``.
         }
     );
 
-.. warning::
-
-    Wide character strings may not work as described on Python 2.7 or Python
-    3.3 compiled with ``--enable-unicode=ucs2``.
-
 Strings in multibyte encodings such as Shift-JIS must transcoded to a
 UTF-8/16/32 before being returned to Python.
 

docs/advanced/classes.rst

@@ -813,26 +813,21 @@ An instance can now be pickled as follows:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-    try:
-        import cPickle as pickle  # Use cPickle on Python 2.7
-    except ImportError:
-        import pickle
+    import pickle
 
     p = Pickleable("test_value")
     p.setExtra(15)
-    data = pickle.dumps(p, 2)
+    data = pickle.dumps(p)
 
 
 .. note::
-    Note that only the cPickle module is supported on Python 2.7.
-
-    The second argument to ``dumps`` is also crucial: it selects the pickle
-    protocol version 2, since the older version 1 is not supported. Newer
-    versions are also fine—for instance, specify ``-1`` to always use the
-    latest available version. Beware: failure to follow these instructions
-    will cause important pybind11 memory allocation routines to be skipped
-    during unpickling, which will likely lead to memory corruption and/or
-    segmentation faults.
+    If given, the second argument to ``dumps`` must be 2 or larger - 0 and 1 are
+    not supported. Newer versions are also fine; for instance, specify ``-1`` to
+    always use the latest available version. Beware: failure to follow these
+    instructions will cause important pybind11 memory allocation routines to be
+    skipped during unpickling, which will likely lead to memory corruption
+    and/or segmentation faults. Python defaults to version 3 (Python 3-3.7) and
+    version 4 for Python 3.8+.
 
 .. seealso::
 
@@ -849,11 +844,9 @@ Python normally uses references in assignments. Sometimes a real copy is needed
 to prevent changing all copies. The ``copy`` module [#f5]_ provides these
 capabilities.
 
-On Python 3, a class with pickle support is automatically also (deep)copy
+A class with pickle support is automatically also (deep)copy
 compatible. However, performance can be improved by adding custom
-``__copy__`` and ``__deepcopy__`` methods. With Python 2.7, these custom methods
-are mandatory for (deep)copy compatibility, because pybind11 only supports
-cPickle.
+``__copy__`` and ``__deepcopy__`` methods.
 
 For simple classes (deep)copy can be enabled by using the copy constructor,
 which should look as follows:

docs/advanced/exceptions.rst

@@ -328,8 +328,8 @@ an invalid state.
 Chaining exceptions ('raise from')
 ==================================
 
-In Python 3.3 a mechanism for indicating that exceptions were caused by other
-exceptions was introduced:
+Python has a mechanism for indicating that exceptions were caused by other
+exceptions:
 
 .. code-block:: py
 
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ exceptions was introduced:
 
 To do a similar thing in pybind11, you can use the ``py::raise_from`` function. It
 sets the current python error indicator, so to continue propagating the exception
-you should ``throw py::error_already_set()`` (Python 3 only).
+you should ``throw py::error_already_set()``.
 
 .. code-block:: cpp
 

docs/advanced/pycpp/numpy.rst

@@ -398,8 +398,6 @@ Ellipsis
 Python 3 provides a convenient ``...`` ellipsis notation that is often used to
 slice multidimensional arrays. For instance, the following snippet extracts the
 middle dimensions of a tensor with the first and last index set to zero.
-In Python 2, the syntactic sugar ``...`` is not available, but the singleton
-``Ellipsis`` (of type ``ellipsis``) can still be used directly.
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
@@ -414,8 +412,6 @@ operation on the C++ side:
    py::array a = /* A NumPy array */;
    py::array b = a[py::make_tuple(0, py::ellipsis(), 0)];
 
-.. versionchanged:: 2.6
-   ``py::ellipsis()`` is now also available in Python 2.
 
 Memory view
 ===========
@@ -455,9 +451,5 @@ We can also use ``memoryview::from_memory`` for a simple 1D contiguous buffer:
         );
     })
 
-.. note::
-
-    ``memoryview::from_memory`` is not available in Python 2.
-
 .. versionchanged:: 2.6
     ``memoryview::from_memory`` added.

docs/basics.rst

@@ -166,12 +166,12 @@ load and execute the example:
 .. code-block:: pycon
 
     $ python
-    Python 2.7.10 (default, Aug 22 2015, 20:33:39)
-    [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.59.1)] on darwin
+    Python 3.9.10 (main, Jan 15 2022, 11:48:04)
+    [Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.3)] on darwin
     Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
     >>> import example
     >>> example.add(1, 2)
-    3L
+    3
     >>>
 
 .. _keyword_args:

docs/compiling.rst

@@ -462,11 +462,8 @@ available in all modes. The targets provided are:
    ``pybind11::headers``
      Just the pybind11 headers and minimum compile requirements
 
-   ``pybind11::python2_no_register``
-     Quiets the warning/error when mixing C++14 or higher and Python 2
-
    ``pybind11::pybind11``
-     Python headers + ``pybind11::headers`` + ``pybind11::python2_no_register`` (Python 2 only)
+     Python headers + ``pybind11::headers``
 
    ``pybind11::python_link_helper``
      Just the "linking" part of pybind11:module
@@ -583,12 +580,6 @@ using ``pip`` or ``conda``. If it hasn't, you can also manually specify
 ``-I <path-to-pybind11>/include`` together with the Python includes path
 ``python3-config --includes``.
 
-Note that Python 2.7 modules don't use a special suffix, so you should simply
-use ``example.so`` instead of ``example$(python3-config --extension-suffix)``.
-Besides, the ``--extension-suffix`` option may or may not be available, depending
-on the distribution; in the latter case, the module extension can be manually
-set to ``.so``.
-
 On macOS: the build command is almost the same but it also requires passing
 the ``-undefined dynamic_lookup`` flag so as to ignore missing symbols when
 building the module:

docs/faq.rst

@@ -8,9 +8,7 @@ Frequently asked questions
 filename of the extension library (without suffixes such as ``.so``).
 
 2. If the above did not fix the issue, you are likely using an incompatible
-version of Python (for instance, the extension library was compiled against
-Python 2, while the interpreter is running on top of some version of Python
-3, or vice versa).
+version of Python that does not match what you compiled with.
 
 "Symbol not found: ``__Py_ZeroStruct`` / ``_PyInstanceMethod_Type``"
 ========================================================================
@@ -289,27 +287,7 @@ Conflicts can arise, however, when using pybind11 in a project that *also* uses
 the CMake Python detection in a system with several Python versions installed.
 
 This difference may cause inconsistencies and errors if *both* mechanisms are
-used in the same project. Consider the following CMake code executed in a
-system with Python 2.7 and 3.x installed:
-
-.. code-block:: cmake
-
-    find_package(PythonInterp)
-    find_package(PythonLibs)
-    find_package(pybind11)
-
-It will detect Python 2.7 and pybind11 will pick it as well.
-
-In contrast this code:
-
-.. code-block:: cmake
-
-    find_package(pybind11)
-    find_package(PythonInterp)
-    find_package(PythonLibs)
-
-will detect Python 3.x for pybind11 and may crash on
-``find_package(PythonLibs)`` afterwards.
+used in the same project.
 
 There are three possible solutions:
 

include/pybind11/cast.h

@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ class type_caster<bool> {
                 res = 0; // None is implicitly converted to False
             }
 #if defined(PYPY_VERSION)
-            // On PyPy, check that "__bool__" (or "__nonzero__" on Python 2.7) attr exists
+            // On PyPy, check that "__bool__" attr exists
             else if (hasattr(src, PYBIND11_BOOL_ATTR)) {
                 res = PyObject_IsTrue(src.ptr());
             }
@@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ struct string_caster {
             return load_bytes(load_src);
         }
 
-        // On Python 3.3, for UTF-8 we avoid the need for a temporary `bytes`
-        // object by using `PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize`.
+        // For UTF-8 we avoid the need for a temporary `bytes` object by using
+        // `PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize`.
         if (PYBIND11_SILENCE_MSVC_C4127(UTF_N == 8)) {
             Py_ssize_t size = -1;
             const auto *buffer
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ struct string_caster {
     template <typename C = CharT>
     bool load_bytes(enable_if_t<std::is_same<C, char>::value, handle> src) {
         if (PYBIND11_BYTES_CHECK(src.ptr())) {
-            // We were passed a Python 3 raw bytes; accept it into a std::string or char*
+            // We were passed raw bytes; accept it into a std::string or char*
             // without any encoding attempt.
             const char *bytes = PYBIND11_BYTES_AS_STRING(src.ptr());
             if (bytes) {
@@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ struct arg_v : arg {
 
 /// \ingroup annotations
 /// Annotation indicating that all following arguments are keyword-only; the is the equivalent of
-/// an unnamed '*' argument (in Python 3)
+/// an unnamed '*' argument
 struct kw_only {};
 
 /// \ingroup annotations

include/pybind11/detail/common.h

@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@
 // If UNDEFINED, pybind11::str can only hold PyUnicodeObject, and
 //               pybind11::isinstance<str>() is true only for pybind11::str.
 //               However, for Python 2 only (!), the pybind11::str caster
-//               implicitly decodes bytes to PyUnicodeObject. This is to ease
+//               implicitly decoded bytes to PyUnicodeObject. This was to ease
 //               the transition from the legacy behavior to the non-permissive
 //               behavior.