> and Python3 not operating on bytes by default is a mess. I'm not arguing that it's not, but I don't how your examples support your point. Would you please ex

> and Python3 not operating on bytes by default is a mess. I'm not arguing that it's not, but I don't how your examples support your point. Would you please explain how your examples show that "strings are unicode" is broken on Python 3? FWIW, here's what I get: Python 2: >>> import sys, locale >>> print(sys.getdefaultencoding()) ascii >>> print(locale.getpreferredencoding()) UTF-8 >>> print(sys.stdout.encoding) UTF-8 >>> print(sys.getfilesystemencoding()) utf-8 In Python 3, the only difference is: >>> print(sys.getdefaultencoding()) utf-8