On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 08:22:38 -0500 Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > On 1/5/14 8:14 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/5/unicode-in-2-and-3/ > > > > Please don't shoot the messenger :) > > > > With all of the talk about py 2 vs. py3 these days, this is the blog > post that I think deserves the most real attention. I haven't had to do > the kind of coding that Armin is talking about, but I've heard more than > one person talk about the difficulty of it in Python 3. > > If anyone wants Python 3 uptake improved, the best thing would be to > either explain to Armin how he missed the easy way to do what he wants > (seems unlikely), or advocate to the core devs why they should change > things to improve this situation.
Sometimes the best way to "advocate to the core devs" is to do part of the work, though. There are several people arguing for %-formatting or .format() on bytes, but that still lacks a clear description of which formatting codes would be supported, with which semantics. (see e.g. http://bugs.python.org/issue3982) As for the rest of Armin's rant, well, it's a rant. "In some cases Python 3 is a bit less practical than Python 2" doesn't equate to "Python 3 is broken and 2.8 should be released instead". Regards Antoine. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
