Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:11 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> The first three bytes are the "UTF-8 BOM", which suggests you may have
>> created this in a broken editor like Notepad.
>
> Notepad may be horribly crippled, but I'm not entirely sure "broken" is the
> right word for it. Does it do anything *wrong*? I don't think so.
>

Well, okay, this particular behaviour isn't technically "broken". But
Notepad is broken in enough other ways that it's best to avoid it.
(For example, its text *de*coding is famously buggy.)

ChrisA