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On 06/01/2014 12:39, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>
> I'm not talking about the technical details of bytes and Unicode.  I'm
> talking about making customers happy.
>

Simply scrap PEP 404 and the currently unhappy customers will be happy 
as they'll be free to do all the work they want on Python 2.8, as my 
understanding is that the vast majority of the Python core developers 
won't do it for them.

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

Mark Lawrence