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i know it does - but it would be nice to have the everything-is-unicode mechanism of python 3. Asian developers hit unicode problems before US based developers

• lloeki 10y ago
  But then it wouldn't be compatible with Python 2 code, so you might as well use Python 3
  • sandGorgon 10y ago
    http://python-future.org/unicode_literals.html http://python-future.org/unicode_literals.html nope - you can mix them in python 2 code. The way it should have been done in the first place.
• orf 10y ago
  ... You can't have your cake and eat it. If you want Unicode everywhere then you use Python 3, because it's a breaking change. Saying you'd want it in Python 2 is a confused way of saying "I need to use Python 3".