This is the problem with Python 3. The arrogance of the people in support of wrestling it from us. > Frankly, if these "carrots" haven't convinced you yet, the

This is the problem with Python 3. The arrogance of the people in support of wrestling it from us. > Frankly, if these "carrots" haven't convinced you yet, then I'll wager you're not really the sort of person who is persuaded by carrots. As someone that uses Python as a C replacement for one-off-scripts that work with binary objects and pure ASCII, Unicode is not a carrot. Unicode will never be a carrot. If anything, Unicode keeps me away. If I was developing web apps, GUI programs, or data processing libraries, sure. These would all be carrots. But I'm not. The simplicity of Python 2 is my carrot. > Python 3 does have carrots, and I want them. You have them. But you seem to be more interested in taking away my carrots, so you don't have to worry about them any more. That's arrogance.