Time we switched to unicode? (was Explanation of this Python language feature?)

Antoon Pardon antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be
Wed Mar 26 05:22:22 EDT 2014


On 26-03-14 01:24, Terry Reedy wrote:

> The other fact that Chris noted, that '{}' would have been valid but 
> with different meanings in Py1/2 versus Py3, was a factor on the cost 
> side. We generally try to avoid such ambiguities.
>
> Except for this last point, I was in favor of the switch.

In my estimation the cost would have been bearable. But I understand this
kind of things is always a judgement call and different people can legitimately
come to different conclusions.

-- 
Antoon Pardon




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