Which is why I'm shocked that Python's big "we're breaking backwards compatibility" release (Python 3) was mostly just for Unicode strings. It seems like the C

Which is why I'm shocked that Python's big "we're breaking backwards compatibility" release (Python 3) was mostly just for Unicode strings. It seems like the C API and the various __builtins__ introspection API thingies should've been the real focus on breaking backwards compatibility so that Python would have a better future for improvements like this.