On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 01:34:26 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, it bloody well does. The number of people who have told me that > using Python 3 is what allowed them to finally understand how Unicode > works vastly exceeds the number of wire protocol and file format devs > that have complained about working with binary formats being > significantly less tolerant of the "it's really like ASCII text" > mindset.
+1 to what Nick says. Forcing some constructs to be explicit leads people to know about the issue and understand it, rather than sweep it under the carpet as Python 2 encouraged them to do. Yes, if you're dealing with a file format or network protocol, you'd better know in which charset its textual information is being expressed. It's a very sane question to ask yourself! Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
