I guess I don’t understand your argument that “Python 3 changed the entire text model and dropped the mic.” format strings are optional; the old % operator sti

I guess I don’t understand your argument that “Python 3 changed the entire text model and dropped the mic.” format strings are optional; the old % operator still works fine. The change to unicode is dramatic, but personally I haven’t run into major problems. I’ve had unit tests break because of it, but that’s why one has unit tests. I’ve also worked on a very large python webapp that underwent painful internationalization, and in that case we ended up using unicode strings everywhere anyways.