[Python-Dev] 2.7 Release? 2.7 == last of the 2.x line?

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> From my experience, string to unicode migration really is the biggest
> pain when porting anything that handles real-world data.

Of course, handling Unicode right is also the biggest pain when
writing code for 2.x in the first place -- writing greenfield code
targeted at 3.x that does Unicode right is a lot easier. Alas, this
does nothing for those folks who already have working Unicode handling
code for 2.x...

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