On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 01:34:26 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, it bloody well does. The number of people who have told me that using Python 3 is what allowed them to finally understand how Unicode works vastly exceeds the number of wire protocol and file format devs that have complained about working with binary formats being significantly less tolerant of the "it's really like ASCII text" mindset.
+1 to what Nick says. Forcing some constructs to be explicit leads people to know about the issue and understand it, rather than sweep it under the carpet as Python 2 encouraged them to do. Yes, if you're dealing with a file format or network protocol, you'd better know in which charset its textual information is being expressed. It's a very sane question to ask yourself! Regards Antoine.