Python 3 curiosity.

[Wildman]

On Wed, 07 Sep 2016 02:27:40 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:13 AM, Wildman via Python-list
> <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 06 Sep 2016 02:51:39 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:
>>
>>> It's curious to see all these apps, that were
>>> more of less working correctly up to Python 3.2
>>> (included) and are now no more working at all.
>>>
>>> Probably something wrong somewhere...
>>
>> http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2014_python_2_3_key_diff.html
> 
> That's jmf, and he never actually posts proof, but keeps on asserting
> that Unicode handling in Python 3.3+ is "broken". Actually, it's not.
> The worst criticism you can level at it is that it may be slower in
> certain microbenchmarks... but only if you're comparing against a
> *narrow build* of Python 3.2, which is *buggy*. In other words, Python
> eliminated an endemic bug, and actually improved performance overall,
> but worsened it on a very VERY few cases.
> 
> Most of us have either killfiled him, or are reading this via the
> mailing list, which doesn't carry his traffic. I suggest you do the
> same. He's a crank.
> 
> ChrisA

Thanks for the heads-up.

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