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> From: Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> > To: > Cc: "python-list@python.org" <python-list@python.org> > Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 3:42 PM > Subject: Re: Why Python 3? <snip> > Right. It's not the magic line that fixes everything; if it were, > Python 3 wouldn't be a big deal at all. Go Py3 if you can, but if you > can't, at least make your double-quoted strings Unicode strings, and > then you have a chance to find problems. Totally agree. It's not that hard at all. I consider it true craftmanship that Guido had the guts break backward compatibility and clean up some mistakes. Compare this with CRAN R, where so much illogical S-plus stuff is present (word count for "historical anomaly": 1000+ ;-). Am I the only one who always thinks of Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations curve with these Python2/3 debates? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diffusion_of_ideas.svg. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list