On Jan 11, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, it bloody well does. The number of people who have told me that > using Python 3 is what allowed them to finally understand how Unicode > works vastly exceeds the number of wire protocol and file format devs > that have complained about working with binary formats being > significantly less tolerant of the "it's really like ASCII text" > mindset. FWIW as one of the people who it took Python3 to finally figure out how to actually use unicode, it was the absence of encode on bytes and decode on str that actually did it. Giving bytes a format method would not have affected that either way I don’t believe. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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