[Python-Dev] Python3 "complexity"

[Kristján Valur Jónsson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Python-Dev [mailto:python-dev-
> bounces+kristjan=ccpgames.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Ben Finney
> Sent: 9. janúar 2014 00:50
> To: python-dev at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Python3 "complexity"
> 
> Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> writes:
> 
> > I didn't used to must.  Why must I must now?  Did the universe just
> > shift when I fired up python3?
> 
> In a sense, yes. The world of software has been shifting for decades, as a
> reasult of broader changes in how different segments of humanity have
> changed their interactions, and thereby changed their expectations of what
> computers can do with their data.

Do I speak Chinese to my grocer because china is a growing force in the world?  Or start every discussion with my children with a negotiation on what language to use?
I get all the talk about Unicode, and interoperability and foreign languages and the world (I'm Icelandic, after all.)
The point I'm trying to make, and which I think you are missing is this:
A tool that I have been happily using on my own system, to my own ends (I'm not writing international spam posts or hosting a United Nations election, but parsing and writing config.ini files, say)
just became harder to use for that purpose.
I think I'm not the only one to realize this, otherwise, PEP460 wouldn't be there.

Anyway, I'll duck out now
*ducks*

K