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

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 19:03:36 EST 2016


On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Jon Ribbens
<jon+usenet at unequivocal.co.uk> wrote:
> On 2016-03-09, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Then *get interested*. Unicode is the only way that you'll ever not be
>> parochially bound to a subset of English - or, worse, bound to an
>> arbitrary eight-bit codepage that you don't even control the choice
>> of, such that your program behaves differently on different systems.
>> FIX YOUR LANGUAGE and support non-English text.
>
> You can't even support English text properly without Unicode.
> Plenty of English words use non-ASCII characters:
> café, crêpe, façade, naïve, dæmon, etc.

Like I said, a subset of English.

ChrisA



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