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Wed Oct 1 14:43:23 CEST 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-October/082739.html

glyph at divmod.com wrote:
> The reasoning is that a lot of software doesn't care if it's wrong for
> edge cases, it's really hard to come up with something that's correct
> with respect to all of those edge cases (absurdly difficult, if you need
> to stay in the straightjacket of string / bytes types, as well as
> provide a useful library interface - which is why we're having this
> discussion).  But, it should be _possible_ to write software that's
> correct in the face of those edge cases.

I just wanted to highlight this as something to keep in mind during this
discussion: we want to keep the easy things easy and make the difficult
things possible.

Cheers,
Nick.

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