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Mon May 14 12:34:22 EDT 2018 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-May/153529.html

On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 8:14 AM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > I have found 2to3 conversion to be remarkably easy and painless.
>
> > And the whole Unicode thing is much easier.
>

Another point here:

between 3.0 and 3.6 (.5?) -- py3 grew a lot of minor features that made it
easier to write py2/py3 compatible code. u"string", b'bytes %i' % something
-- and when where the various __future__ imports made available?

If these had been in place in 3.0, the whole process would have been easier
:-(

-CHB

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