Still playing the devil's advocate:
I didn't used to must.  Why must I must now?  Did the universe just shift when 
I fired up python3?
Things were demonstatably working just fine before without doing so.

K

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From: Python-Dev [python-dev-bounces+kristjan=ccpgames....@python.org] on 
behalf of Ben Finney [ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au]
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 00:07
To: python-dev@python.org
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Python3 "complexity"

Kristján Valur Jónsson <krist...@ccpgames.com> writes:

> Python 3 forces you to think about abstract concepts like encodings
> when all you want is to open that .txt file on the drive and extract
> some phone numbers and merge in some email addresses.  What encoding
> does the file have?  Do I care?  Must I care?

Yes, you must.
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