I'm so sorry for the mess in my post above, I apologize to all, I accidentally hit return ...
I just meant to say that internet programming using ASCII urls is so common and important that it hurts that Python 3 makes it so much harder. It sure would be great if Python 3 could be improved to allow such programming to be done using ASCII urls without requiring all the unicode overhead. Armin is right. Calling his post a rant doesn't help. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
