Re: is python 3 better than python 2?

From	Mel <mwilson@the-wire.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: is python 3 better than python 2?
Date	2011-04-05 14:46 +0000
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neil wrote:

> what are the advantages? if it wasn't for python 3 breaking backwards
> compatibility would it be the better choice? 

IMHO the killer app for Python 3 is in more reasonable support for
foreign character sets (no matter where your are, at least one out of
the hundred-odd Unicode character sets is going to be foreign,) and
generally internationalized data processing.

	Mel.

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is python 3 better than python 2? neil <neilharper300890@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 13:42 +0100
  Re: is python 3 better than python 2? Mel <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2011-04-05 14:46 +0000
    Re: is python 3 better than python 2? John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2011-04-05 13:42 -0700
      Re: is python 3 better than python 2? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-04-06 01:04 -0400
      Re: is python 3 better than python 2? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-04-06 17:31 +0100
      Re: is python 3 better than python 2? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-04-06 13:01 -0400
      Re: is python 3 better than python 2? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 13:14 -0700
  Re: is python 3 better than python 2? Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 09:50 -0700

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