Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > Fine. Tell me how you would go about adding true Unicode support to > Python 2.7, while still having it able to import an unchanged program. > Trick question - it's fundamentally impossible, because an unchanged > program will not distinguish between bytes and text, but true Unicode > support requires that they be distinguished.
Python 2 has always had unicode strings and [byte] strings. They were always clearly distinguished. You really didn't have to change anything for "true Unicode support". > you may as well go straight to Py3 and take advantage of its features. The first real new feature in Python 3 is asyncio. I've been perfectly happy with select.epoll myself and written my own 50-line asyncio equivalents so it remains to be seen how much traction asyncio will have. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
