On 2018-07-17 08:37, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com>: > > Wait, but now you're talking about vendors. Much of the crux of > > this discussion has been about personal scripts that don't need to > > marshal Unicode strings in and out of various functions/objects. > > In both personal and professional settings, you face the same > issues. But you don't want to build on something that will > disappear from the Linux distros.
Right. Distros are moving away from ASCII-only to proper Unicode (however it is encoded) support. Certainly wouldn't want to build on something that's disappearing from distros, so best to build on Py3 and Unicode strings. ;-) -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
