Instagram: 40% Py3 to 99% Py3 in 10 months (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:50:36 +1000, Steve D'Aprano
> <steve+python at pearwood.info> declaimed the following:
>
>>
>>Although, the Unicode Consortium thinks of them as more like private use
>>characters, only even more private, and not characters :-)
>>
>>(If you ask me, I think the noncharacters exist because "it seemed like a good
>>idea at the time" -- the use-case for them seems particularly ill-defined. I
>>suspect that if we were to redo Unicode from scratch, they wouldn't be
>>included.)
>>
>         Almost sounds like the Unicode equivalent of the private LAN IP
> addresses (192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x, whatever the "class B" address is)
>
>         IE: available for your use but should never get out into the wild.

No, because there are "private use areas" for that. :)

ChrisA