"More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 22:41:26 +0000, Nicholas Cole wrote:

[...]
> Like everyone else, when Python 3 came out I was nervous.  A lot of my
> code broke - but it broke for a good reason.  I had been being cavalier
> about strings and ASCII and bytes.  A lot of my code was working by
> accident rather than by design, or because my users had never fed it
> anything that would make it fall over.  Of course, my first reaction was
> a defensive one, but once I had got over that and got my head around
> Python 3's view of the world, I was pleased I had. ...


Well said!




-- 
Steven