Re:Python 3: Ten years later
by mrweasel on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:46AM
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>on 3.x that burden is pushed to the API consumer
So for most people it's better. The same goes for the guessing encoding part. Sure, you really shouldn't, but sometimes you had to and then you end up with chardet all over the place. Python 3 may do the exact same behind the scenes. The thing is that the Python core developer are much more talented than I am, so now I get to not think to much about it and just build on their work. From the "regular end-user developer" it's better.
So for most people it's better. The same goes for the guessing encoding part. Sure, you really shouldn't, but sometimes you had to and then you end up with chardet all over the place. Python 3 may do the exact same behind the scenes. The thing is that the Python core developer are much more talented than I am, so now I get to not think to much about it and just build on their work. From the "regular end-user developer" it's better.