We were working exclusively with filenames (and files) that we generated ourselves, moving them around in our own infrastructure, and writing all of our own con

We were working exclusively with filenames (and files) that we generated ourselves, moving them around in our own infrastructure, and writing all of our own configs, yes :P I didn't insinuate that there weren't problems or that I wanted to keep Python 2 - just that it was perfectly normal to use it and not run into problems. I think I only remember a handful of encoding problems with my other python 2 adventures...