The only time I had Unicode trouble with python 2 was when a library thought it had to handle encoding. Instead of just piping in bytes on one end and piping ou

The only time I had Unicode trouble with python 2 was when a library thought it had to handle encoding. Instead of just piping in bytes on one end and piping out bytes at the other it failed the moment it saw an ü on a system with german text. Unicode certainly has a place, introducing thousands of system specific error and edge cases in what should be a few lines of utility script is not one of them.