Are the critiques in "All the things I hate about Python" valid?

Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 14:25:07 EST 2018


On 2018-02-20, Rhodri James <rhodri at kynesim.co.uk> wrote:

> The schism is not as wide as you are implying.  Aside from "print" 
> becoming a function, which is blindingly obvious whenever you trip over 
> it, there is relatively little reason why an ordinary Pythonista would 
> care whether he or she was running Python 2 or Python 3.

Any ordinary Pythonista to deals with raw data "bytes" cares a great
deal.  There are major differences between the Py2 and Py3 in that
area, and they're a royal PITA to deal with.

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