> * Byte strings and character strings are different things so now I have to care about stuff. The vast majority of Python programmers who don't live in a most

> * Byte strings and character strings are different things so now I have to care about stuff. The vast majority of Python programmers who don't live in a mostly-ASCII world just breathed a sigh of relief. Python 3 makes Unicode awareness mandatory instead of optional; that's the right move for a web-facing, human-facing language.