On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:01:08 am Laurens Van Houtven wrote:
I think doing unicode/str properly in 2.x is very important, #python stresses it quite often, I think Py3k's strictness is a good idea because people very often write something that appears to work for a long time, and then someone tries it using funny bytes, and everything blows apart. Convincing people their software is wrong when "everything worked five minutes ago" is really hard :-)
Worse is when you have people who, when faced with their software failing to handle filenames containing non-ASCII characters ("those funny letters"), insist that the problem is the user for giving non-ASCII characters. Even when they're in the user's native (non-Latin) language. Even when the OS supports them. Gah. -- Steven D'Aprano