[Python-Dev] (Looking for) A Retrospective on the Move to Python 3

[INADA Naoki]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 10:36 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Victor Stinner wrote:
> > In my opinion, the largest failure of Python 3 is that we failed to
> > provide a smooth and *slow* transition from Python 2 and Python 3.

> Although for some things, such as handling of non-ascii text, it's
> hard to see how a smooth transition *could* have been achieved.
> Is it a failure if we don't succeed in doing the impossible?


I don't think it's your (I'm not core developer at the time) failure.
On the other hand, we should avoid many changes (e.g. bytes[index])
when doing such big change next time.

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INADA Naoki  <songofacandy at gmail.com>