There is an explanation missing in that answer about how python 2 goofed up and python 3 strings fixed things. Without that explanation, showing how the Python

There is an explanation missing in that answer about how python 2 goofed up and python 3 strings fixed things. Without that explanation, showing how the Python 2 strings must be "decoded" is just terribly confusing. It doesn't really make sense to "decode" a proper string type. Ideally the language should never reveal how it represents strings internally in memory, so you can think of strings as a sequence of abstract unicode codepoints with no specific encoding at all. And Python 3 strings are like that.