This is great news. I've been working with Python 3 for a few years now, and it really is a nicer language than 2. Granted 2.7 is a hard act to follow. Even th

This is great news. I've been working with Python 3 for a few years now, and it really is a nicer language than 2. Granted 2.7 is a hard act to follow. Even though the transition from 2 to 3 has been slow, I take it as a positive sign about the Python ecosystem. The general Python community has traditionally erred toward stability, and conservative feature introduction. The gradual introduction of large changes to the core language reflects that characteristic. Hopefully this will cajole Python 2.7 users to migrate. Assuming you have decent test coverage, the migration generally isn't that difficult. If you do a lot of NLP or string processing, the sane unicode support is worth it alone.