Re:Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support
by vetinari on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @06:40PM
(#15709093)
Most people didn't learn to work around unicode issues during the 2.7 time frame.
Many third party modules tended to explode spectacularly with encode/decode errors, when they were fed non-ascii strings, when used by people who write using all these funny characters.
Just the correct handling of strings in Python 3 alone is a hell of a reason to switch to it.
Re:Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support
by bonesss on Thursday November 16, 2017 @07:19AM
(#15712096)
Let's not forget the joy of third party libraries that wouldn't fail, but rather silently convert, your data because they had hidden ascii asumptions...
Many third party modules tended to explode spectacularly with encode/decode errors, when they were fed non-ascii strings, when used by people who write using all these funny characters.
Just the correct handling of strings in Python 3 alone is a hell of a reason to switch to it.