> tries to make things work in a simpler, but wrong way To be fair, it is an old language. Before Python 3, it used the old assumptions about text being just

> tries to make things work in a simpler, but wrong way To be fair, it is an old language. Before Python 3, it used the old assumptions about text being just 1-byte characters. We all know how much trouble it was to switch to Unicode. At least it treats integers as true integers rather than your CPU's concept of an integer.