On Thu, Feb 18, 2016, at 01:47, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > There are more features in Python 3, so in that trivial sense of "more to > learn", I suppose that it is objectively correct that it is harder to > learn > than Python 2. But I don't think the learning curve is any steeper. If > anything, the learning curve is ever-so-slightly less steep.
I wonder if (with one of the major differences being the unicode thing) there is a differences between the learning curve for people whose primary prior experience is with languages that use byte strings for text (such as perl, [as typically used] C, shell/awk/etc, PHP, python 2) vs languages that use some form of unicode string (UTF-8 byte strings on a platform whose default encoding is also UTF-8 don't count) for text (such as java, C#, javascript). I feel like the unicode string stuff (issues like encodings etc) is something that you only have to learn _once_, and then if you really understand it then for a new language you can just look up how to do it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
