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On 16/01/2014 12:06, Frank Millman wrote:
..........
>> I assure you that I fully understand my ignorance of unicode. Until
>> recently I didn't even know that the unicode in python 2.x is considered
>> broken and that str in python 3.x is considered 'better'.
>>
>
> Hi Robin
>
> I am pretty sure that Steven was referring to the original post from
> jmfauth, not to anything that you wrote.
>

unfortunately my ignorance remains even in the absence of criticism

> May I say that I am delighted that you are putting in the effort to port
> ReportLab to python3, and I trust that you will get plenty of support from
> the gurus here in achieving this.
........
I have had a lot of support from the gurus thanks to all of them :)
-- 
Robin Becker