On 9 January 2014 10:22, Kristján Valur Jónsson <krist...@ccpgames.com> wrote: > 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.
They were working fine for experienced POSIX users that had fully internalised the idiosycrasies of that platform and didn't need to care about any other environment (like Windows or the JVM). Cheers, Nick. > > K > > ________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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/ncoghlan%40gmail.com -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
