Re: is python 3 better than python 2?

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject	Re: is python 3 better than python 2?
Date	2011-04-06 01:04 -0400
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On 4/5/2011 4:42 PM, John Nagle wrote:

> Well, actually Unicode support went in back around Python 2.4.

Even earlier, I think, but there were and still are problems with 
unicode in 2.x. Some were and will only be fixed in 3.x.

> In 3.x, ASCII strings went away, but that was more of a removal.

Yes and no. They were kept slightly modified as bytes, with all of the 
string methods kept.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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is python 3 better than python 2? neil <neilharper300890@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 13:42 +0100
  Re: is python 3 better than python 2? Mel <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2011-04-05 14:46 +0000
    Re: is python 3 better than python 2? John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2011-04-05 13:42 -0700
      Re: is python 3 better than python 2? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-04-06 01:04 -0400
      Re: is python 3 better than python 2? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-04-06 17:31 +0100
      Re: is python 3 better than python 2? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-04-06 13:01 -0400
      Re: is python 3 better than python 2? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 13:14 -0700
  Re: is python 3 better than python 2? Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 09:50 -0700

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