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I am honestly curious if there is a good argument for any of the examples you mentioned.

• qznc 12y ago
  Scripting and Tooling becomes more robust wrt Unicode. You write a short script which works on some ASCII data. Later that ASCII suddenly becomes utf8. With Python 2 you could easily run into weird issues, when there is a unicode object instead of the expected str. With Python 3 decode is more explicit and robust. Scripting and Tooling are the major uses of Python for me, so I like Python 3.
  • rburhum 12y ago
    I always work with utf-8 strings that get passed around from native C code to python. So far I have never had an issue. The argument for me for unicode support seems weak. Is there anything else beyond string encode/decode/manipulation? You mentioned tooling... like what?