> This situation could easily have been solved without breaking changes in a multitude of ways. Please, do elaborate. (I'll note that if I were redesigning pyt

> This situation could easily have been solved without breaking changes in a multitude of ways. Please, do elaborate. (I'll note that if I were redesigning python3, I wouldn't settle on the design for unicode that py3 uses, something more rust-like is probably a bit better, but there's no way to transition from string-literals-are-bytes to string-literals-are-unicode without breaking backwards compatibility)