On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Hans-Peter Jansen <h...@urpla.net> wrote: > Given the amount of special unicode handling code, that is necessary to keep > Python 2 happy, makes proceeding with it no real fun on a longer term.. > > And the biggest proponent for hacking in Python IS the fun part of it. Then > productivity, elegance, ..., you name it.
Yeah. I think Py2 is improved significantly by turning it as much as possible into Py3 (which means, in this case, unicode_literals and then basically working everywhere with Unicode), but of course, that sometimes just moves the breakage - as you found here, with repr() insisting on returning a str. The breakage created by Py3 is so worth taking, it's just a matter of when you move. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
