Python 3 did solve a bunch of Unicode issues (some of the fixes were backported to Python 2). The most important one is probably lack of consistency - while it'

Python 3 did solve a bunch of Unicode issues (some of the fixes were backported to Python 2). The most important one is probably lack of consistency - while it's possible to enfore the bytes/Unicode barrier in Python 2, it's not intuitive and many programmers just ignore it. There was a recent LWN.net submission about the other carrots: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9378898 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9378898