On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rodola@gmail.com> wrote:
I bet a lot of people don't want to upgrade for another reason: unicode. The impression I got is that python 3 forces the user to use and *understand* unicode and a lot of people simply don't want to deal with that. In python 2 there was no such a strong imposition. Python 2 string type acting both as bytes and as text was certainly ambiguos and "impure" on different levels and changing that was definitively a win in terms of purity and correctness. I bet most advanced users are happy with this change. On the other hand, Python 2 average user was free to ignore that distinction even if that meant having subtle bugs hidden somewhere in his/her code. I think this aspect shouldn't be underestimated.
Isn't that more accurate for framework writers, rather than for "average" users? How often do average users have to address encoding/decoding in Python 3? -eric