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Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"
Date 2014-01-06 15:49 -0500
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On 1/6/2014 8:44 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> 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

Not necessary.

> and the currently unhappy customers will be happy
> as they'll be free to do all the work they want on Python 2.8,

They are already free to do so, as long as they do not call the result 
'Python 2.8'.

 > as my
> understanding is that the vast majority of the Python core developers
> won't do it for them.

Which is what some of them want and why they will never be happy.



-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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