The bytes and bytestring types in Python 3 are basically the str type of Python 2 and I don't see that as much of a hoop to jump through. The Unicode default se

The bytes and bytestring types in Python 3 are basically the str type of Python 2 and I don't see that as much of a hoop to jump through. The Unicode default seems like a very sane decision from my point of view. Your argument primarily seems based around an anti-Unicode viewpoint. Am I missing something?