"More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

[Mark Lawrence]

On 06/01/2014 14:32, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 06 January 2014 08:52:42 Ned Batchelder did opine:
> [...]
>> You are still talking about whether Armin is right, and whether he
>> writes well, about flaws in his statistics, etc.  I'm talking about the
>> fact that an organization (Python core development) has a product
>> (Python 3) that is getting bad press.  Popular and vocal customers
>> (Armin, Kenneth, and others) are unhappy.  What is being done to make
>> them happy?  Who is working with them?  They are not unique, and their
>> viewpoints are not outliers.
>>
>> I'm not talking about the technical details of bytes and Unicode.  I'm
>> talking about making customers happy.
>
> +1 Ned. Quite well said.
>
> And from my lurking here, its quite plain to me that 3.x python has a
> problem with everyday dealing with strings.  If it is not solved relatively
> quickly, then I expect there will be a fork, a 2.8 by those most heavily
> invested. Or an exodus to the next "cool" language.
>

It's not at all plain to me, in fact quite the opposite.  Please expand 
on these problems for mere mortals such as myself.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence