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It was sane unicode support that did it for me. Unicode headaches are way down since I switched. LPTHW was my favorite intro to Python, but I was on the verge

It was sane unicode support that did it for me. Unicode headaches are way down since I switched. LPTHW was my favorite intro to Python, but I was on the verge of not recommending it any more because of Python 2. This is a welcome change.

BuckRogers 10y ago
It's so strange for me to read opinions like that about Python3's string handling. Are you a newer programmer, did you start with LPTHW? You said your 'unicode headaches' went down when you switched to Python3, but that LPTHW was your favorite intro which suggests you might not have written much Python2 and calls into question the number of headaches that Python2 caused you. Their unicode implementation is sub optimal at best, it doesn't need to be so complex. They need to go back to the simplicity of Python2's strings but modernize it. Make everything a bytestring and assume the encoding is UTF8. That's what everyone else is standardizing on.