Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.009 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:not': 0.03; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'language.': 0.14; 'iirc': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:Unicode': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'app': 0.19; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; '---': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'idea': 0.28; 'chris': 0.29; 'went': 0.31; 'convenience': 0.31; 'stuff': 0.32; 'trouble': 0.34; 'something': 0.35; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'enough': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'major': 0.40; 'then,': 0.60; 'free': 0.61; 'deliver': 0.61; 'viruses': 0.61; "you're": 0.61; 'protection': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'production': 0.68; 'antivirus': 0.68; 'subject:know': 0.84; 'subject:you': 0.87; 'subject:want': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3 Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 14:30:46 +0100 References: <8P7cv.78617$Sp6.8377@fx15.am4> <537172eb$0$29980$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87tx8uccgd.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-28-1.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 140513-0, 13/05/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 22 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1399987825 news.xs4all.nl 2880 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:46257 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:71483 On 13/05/2014 09:38, Chris Angelico wrote: > > It's not a good thing. It means that you have the convenience of > pretending there's no problem, which means you don't notice trouble > until something happens... and then, in all probability, your app is > in production and you have no idea why stuff went wrong. > Unless you're (un)lucky enough to be working on IIRC the 1/3 of major IT projects that deliver nothing :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com