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Re:About Python 3 by beagle3 on Monday December 30, 2013 @12:25PM (#6985583)
It's only when you start doing unicode seriously that you see how broken python2 is. It is not unworkable - but it's a mess that is hard to resolve, and keeps biting you in old code paths that weren't tested with character from this subset rather than that subset.

So, Python 3's killer feature is reasonable Unicode support.

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Re:About Python 3 by cdavid on Monday December 30, 2013 @12:47PM (#6985734)
The problem is that reasonable unicode support is a non-issue in many areas were python had a strong competitive advantage over other languages (e.g. data analysis, scientific python).

I don't know much about unicode myself, but some people I trust like Armin Ronacher have showed how some python3 are still heavily broken w.r.t unicode (http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/7/2/the-updated-guide-to-unicod...).

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