On 9 January 2014 10:22, Kristján Valur Jónsson <[email protected]> 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 [[email protected]] on > behalf of Ben Finney [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 00:07 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Python3 "complexity" > > Kristján Valur Jónsson <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ncoghlan%40gmail.com -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
