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Re:Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long? by joshuamorton on Thursday November 14, 2019 @04:11PM (#21539467)
kstrauer is right, but I'll elaborate and say that places where you are interfacing with Unix threads are input boundaries, so having the programmer make a choice makes sense. Arbitrary switching within a program does not.
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Re:Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long? by test7777 on Sunday November 17, 2019 @08:06AM (#21557754)
the issue is that the language arbitrarily decides those things should be treated as text with some arbitrary encoding when all of them are decidedly not text.
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