[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Raymond Hettinger
<raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
>
>   This is a common pain-point for porting software to 3.x - you had a
> string, it kinda worked most of the time before, but now you need to keep
> track of text too and the functions which seemed to work on bytes no longer
> do.
>
> Thanks Glyph.  That is a nice summary of one kind of challenge facing
> programmers.

Ironically, Glyph also described the pain in 2.x: it only "kinda" worked.

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