> The move to Unicode is not "incremental" by, like, any measure. The unicode improvements in Python 3 are definitely a step in the right direction. But there

> The move to Unicode is not "incremental" by, like, any measure. The unicode improvements in Python 3 are definitely a step in the right direction. But there were certainly good ways of improving unicode issues without breaking compatibility. Things like print are a joke, no one should care about its semantics. > Just... get on with it, you know? Move to Python 3.x and be done with it. Pretty easy to say. But try convincing product managers to take 5 devs off their current projects for 6 months to port a working production app to a newer programming language, with little concrete evidence that it will have a meaningful impact on the project (other than introducing bugs).