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On 19/08/2014 22:59, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 8/19/2014 12:35 PM, Laurent Pointal wrote:
>> wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>> Py3: It may luckily work, Python may crash or fails (it raises
>>> unicode errors on valid string!).
>>>
>>> Py2: It is safer and solid.
>
> The truth is that 2.7 has many unicode bugs that have been fixed in in
> various 3.x releases.  Please ignore jmf's disinformation campaign.
>

I don't believe that a single bug report has been raised by jmf during 
this two year long disinformation campaign.  Can somebody please confirm 
that I'm correct or provide references if I'm wrong.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence