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Re:Release of IPython 5.0 by wiz21c on Friday July 08, 2016 @08:27AM (#12054979)
unicode. That in itself is a huge win for the kind of the stuff I work on (100000LOC sized project). It makes things so much easier.
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Re:Release of IPython 5.0 by cschmidt on Friday July 08, 2016 @09:07AM (#12055193)
Absolutely. If you live in a world of ascii, then maybe python 2 is adequate. But I always deal with unicode, and python 3 is a big benefit just for that.
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