[Tutor] 2 vs 3

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:15:52 -0400, Grady Martin writes:
>On 2015年09月05日 23時33分, Alan Gauld wrote:
>>Once you get used to it - and it is a big jump, don't
>>underestimate the learning time - v3 is superior.
>
>This is the first I've heard someone describe the learning curve from 2 to 3 in anything but negligible terms.  What makes the jump big?

It's big for people in English speaking languges who have never used
unicode before.  Those of us who have been using unicode with Python 2
for a very long time, in contrast, say 'my word, this is a whole lot
simpler'. :)

Laura