Re:What Killed Perl?
by Izkata on Thursday November 20, 2025 @10:08AM
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> the splitting of byte strings and character strings alone (an obvious move towards sanity) was plenty annoying for many projects.
Python 2 had both, it was a rename, not a split. unicode -> str, and str -> bytes. The "u" string prefix was also removed, which made migration of string-heavy code more of a pain than it needed to be, until it was added back in in 3.3
Python 2 had both, it was a rename, not a split. unicode -> str, and str -> bytes. The "u" string prefix was also removed, which made migration of string-heavy code more of a pain than it needed to be, until it was added back in in 3.3