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

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On 08/01/2014 23:34, rdsteph@mac.com wrote:
> I'm so sorry for the mess in my post above, I apologize to all, I accidentally hit return ...
>
> I just meant to say that internet programming using ASCII urls is so common and important that it hurts that Python 3 makes it so much harder. It sure would be great if Python 3 could be improved to allow such programming to be done using ASCII urls without requiring all the unicode overhead.
>
> Armin is right. Calling his post a rant doesn't help.
>

I disagree.  If you want to make friends and influence people, your 
opening sentence is not "It's becoming increasingly harder to have 
reasonable discussions about the differences between Python 2 and 3 
because one language is dead and the other is actively developed."  If 
Python 2 is dead, why are the core developers wasting their time 
committing patches to the Python 2 source code, because they have 
nothing better to do?

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

Mark Lawrence

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"More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3" Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-05 13:14 +0000
  Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3" rdsteph@mac.com - 2014-01-08 15:34 -0800
    Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3" Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-09 10:45 +1100
    Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3" Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-08 23:53 +0000

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