On 6/22/2010 12:53 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Raymond Hettinger > <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: >> >> This is a common pain-point for porting software to 3.x - you had a >> string, it kinda worked most of the time before, but now you need to keep >> track of text too and the functions which seemed to work on bytes no longer >> do. >> >> Thanks Glyph. That is a nice summary of one kind of challenge facing >> programmers. > > Ironically, Glyph also described the pain in 2.x: it only "kinda" worked. The people with problematic code to convert must imclude some who managed to tolerate and perhaps suppress the pain. I suspect that conversion attempts brings it back to the surface. It is natural to blame the re-surfacer rather than the original source. (As in 'blame the messenger'). -- Terry Jan Reedy
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