On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:22:15 +0000, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > Nobody <nobody <at> nowhere.com> writes: >> All in all, Python 3.x still has a long way to go before it will be >> suitable for real-world use. > > Such as? Such as not trying to shoe-horn every byte string it encounters into Unicode. Some of them really are *just* byte strings.