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Python developers won’t let go of Python 2 (www.infoworld.com)
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[-] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that context. Seems odd that they would remove the str instead of taking the time to fix it.

[-] o11c@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

It's because unicode was really broken, and a lot of the obvious breakage was when people mixed the two. So they did fix some of the obvious breakage, but they left a lot of the subtle breakage (in addition to breaking a lot of existing correct code, and introducing a completely nonsensical bytes class).

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