As much as I love Python, I get the feeling that you might have chosen the wrong language, or at least you used the wrong abstraction somewhere. Yes, I know th

As much as I love Python, I get the feeling that you might have chosen the wrong language, or at least you used the wrong abstraction somewhere. Yes, I know that Python 2.x and 3.x handle bytes entirely different, yet I cannot understand how Python and their release planning should blindly "bend" to the demands of a project using the language. I understand you don't care about Python the least, but we do? We have to? I think that the maintainers simply had to move forward at some point, there has been a way too long grace period. And Python is not ANSI C. I think what you want of Python is to be never-ever-changing C89 and gcc still supporting it (I think it still does?)