Normally when I see a headline of this sort, I expect I will find another over-enthusiastic bombastic smoke-and-mirrors hit-piece. The fact that this article h

Normally when I see a headline of this sort, I expect I will find another over-enthusiastic bombastic smoke-and-mirrors hit-piece. The fact that this article hits home and is right scares me a tiny bit. For example: "I should note that a simple open(b"foo\x7f.txt", "w") works. The lowest-level calls are smart enough to handle this, but the ecosystem built atop them is uneven at best." Oh Crap...