The real problem with Python 3 - no business case for conversion (was "I strongly dislike Python 3")

[Nobody]

On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:07:33 -0700, John Nagle wrote:

>> I think one point which needs to be emphasized more is what does
>> python 3 bring to people. The" what's new in python 3 page" gives
>> the impression that python 3 is about removing cruft. That's a very
>> poor argument to push people to switch.
> 
>     That's the real issue, not parentheses on the "print" statement.
> Where's the business case for moving to Python 3?

If you're going to be doing a lot of Unicode text processing, I would
expect that using Python 3 would make the task somewhat simpler.