"More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jan 6 16:02:15 EST 2014
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
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