> There is another universe where Python 3 only fixed the unicode strings, and the transition was a huge success and over in a couple of years. Didn't the unic

> There is another universe where Python 3 only fixed the unicode strings, and the transition was a huge success and over in a couple of years. Didn't the unicode changes go on until at least Python 3.6? The issue that most C APIs did not care about their byte strings having any encoding at all seemed to cause one headache after another, especially on Posix, where everything touching the operating system could return random bytes. Reducing the scope to unicode wouldn't have sped up the transition one iota.