"More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

[Mark Lawrence]

On 06/01/2014 20:49, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 1/6/2014 8:44 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 06/01/2014 12:39, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not talking about the technical details of bytes and Unicode.  I'm
>>> talking about making customers happy.
>>>
>>
>> Simply scrap PEP 404
>
> Not necessary.
>
>> and the currently unhappy customers will be happy
>> as they'll be free to do all the work they want on Python 2.8,
>
> They are already free to do so, as long as they do not call the result
> 'Python 2.8'.
>
>  > as my
>> understanding is that the vast majority of the Python core developers
>> won't do it for them.
>
> Which is what some of them want and why they will never be happy.
>

I find all this intriguing.  People haven't found time to migrate from 
Python 2 to Python 3, but now intend finding time to produce a fork of 
Python 2 which will ease the migration to Python 3.  Have I got that 
correct?

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

Mark Lawrence