Kristján Valur Jónsson writes: > 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?
No. Go look at the Economist's tag cloud and notice how big "China" and "India" are most days. The universe has been shifting for 3 decades now, you just noticed it when you fired up Python 3. > Things were demonstatably working just fine before without doing > so. Who elected you General Secretary of the UN? Things were, and are still, demonstrably fucked up for the world at large. Python 3 is a big contribution to un-fucking the rest of us[1], thank you very much to Guido and Company! It's not obvious how to do things right for those of us who have to deal with 8-10 different encodings daily *on our desktops*, and still make things easy for those of you who rarely see ISO 8859/N for N != 1, let alone monstrosities like GB18030 or Shift JIS. That latter is a shame, but we're working on it (and have been all along -- it's not easy). Footnotes: [1] Or will be when my employer adopts it. <sigh/> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
