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[Python-Dev] Python3 "complexity"

Kristján Valur Jónsson kristjan at ccpgames.com
Thu Jan 9 01:22:21 CET 2014 
Still playing the devil's advocate:
I didn't used to must.  Why must I must now?  Did the universe just shift when I fired up python3?
Things were demonstatably working just fine before without doing so.

K

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From: Python-Dev [python-dev-bounces+kristjan=ccpgames.com at python.org] on behalf of Ben Finney [ben+python at benfinney.id.au]
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Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Python3 "complexity"

Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> writes:

> Python 3 forces you to think about abstract concepts like encodings
> when all you want is to open that .txt file on the drive and extract
> some phone numbers and merge in some email addresses.  What encoding
> does the file have?  Do I care?  Must I care?

Yes, you must.
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