For anyone interested in learning why Python 3 works this way I highly recommend the blog of Victor Stinner[0]. As for the article, this is nothing new. The pr

For anyone interested in learning why Python 3 works this way I highly recommend the blog of Victor Stinner[0]. As for the article, this is nothing new. The problem is similar to the issues raised by Armin Ronacher[1]. These problems are well known and Python developers address them one at a time. Issues around these egde cases have improved since the initial release of Python 3.0. [0] http://vstinner.github.io http://vstinner.github.io [1] http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/ http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/