Fabien <fabien.mauss...@gmail.com>: > ... what a coincidence then that a huge majority of scientists > (including me) dont care AT ALL about unicode.
You shouldn't, any more than you care about ASCII or 2's-complement encoding. Things should just work. > But since scientists are not paid to rewrite old code, the scientific > world is still stuck to python 2. It's a pitty, given how easy it is > to write py2/py3 compatible scientific tools. What's a pity is that Python3 chose to ignore the seamless transition path. It would have been nice, for example, to have all Python 3 code explicitly mark its dialect (a .py3 extension, a magic import or something) and then allow legacy Py2 code and Py3 code coexist the same way C and C++ can coexist. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list