[Baypiggies] Python 3000?

Tung Wai Yip tungwaiyip at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 18 02:03:17 CEST 2006


> Keith Dart wrote:
>> Aahz wrote the following on 2006-08-11 at 12:13 PDT:
>> ===
>>
>>> Why do you feel trepidation?
>>>
>> ===
>>
>> 1. Incompatible changes leading to code maintenance issues.
>>
> All other things being equal, it is better not to introduce incompatible
> changes.


At least one incompatible change I'm dying to see - use unicode string by  
default. It is better to do it right once than muddling with whether  
something is byte string or if it is unicode string every step on the way.

Wai Yip


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