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How Python 3 Should Have Worked

• koenigdavidmj 15y ago
  The problem is that they rearranged a fair portion of the libraries, so you would need two full trees of .py files, and it would require a lot more work to figure out which set was running at any given time.
  • dalke 15y ago
    You would also have to handle Python2 strings different from Python3 strings, and figure out some way to handle the encoding problem when translating between the two.