"it did not protect you from mixing Unicode and bytes" I don't need any protection. All my data is UTF-8 so having to convert back and forth to the frankensti

"it did not protect you from mixing Unicode and bytes" I don't need any protection. All my data is UTF-8 so having to convert back and forth to the frankenstien 1, 2, 4 byte "unicode" type is waste of time, memory (space and bandwith) and just adds complexity. So I will not be moving to Python 3 by choice. To me Python is Python 2. If there is no Python 4 by 2020 with proper UTF-8 support I'll just switch to another language.