Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Apr 27 21:33:27 EDT 2018

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Victor Stinner wrote:
> In my opinion, the largest failure of Python 3 is that we failed to
> provide a smooth and *slow* transition from Python 2 and Python 3.

Although for some things, such as handling of non-ascii text, it's
hard to see how a smooth transition *could* have been achieved.
Is it a failure if we don't succeed in doing the impossible?

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Greg

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