• Riskable@programming.dev
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    5 hours ago

    Why? The most annoying thing that I remember about it was popular modules that hadn’t been ported yet. In essence, a temporary problem; growing pains.

    The Unicode/string/bytes changes were welcome (to me). But that might just be because I had actually encountered situations where I had to deal with seemingly endless complexity and ambiguity related to Unicode stuff and encodings. Python 3 made everything much more logical 🤷

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 hour ago

      looking at python2 code these days is very uncanny, just the fact that print is a magical keyword is so wrong: what is this? bash?