[Python-ideas] A suggestion for Python 3 vs Python 2

[Greg Ewing]

Xuancong Wang wrote:
> As you know, reading from and writing to IO is a high frequency 
> operation.

Actually, no, I don't know that. Thinking about the code I write,
the proportion of it devoted to textual output is probably less
than 1%, often far less. So by your argument it should have
a rather verbose encoding!

-- 
Greg