Python 3 is killing Python

[u/upofadown]

https://medium.com/@deliciousrobots/5d2ad703365d/

[u/mitsuhiko → u/[deleted]]

Everybody does work across an IO boundary. Python 3 had the idea to hide the boundary from you but that trick did not work, now they added escape hatches in through surrogate escapes and other things and made everything worse in the process.

Most people just produce broken code in Python 3 now because if you don't touch it too much, it seems to work.

Just getting command line arguments is boundary code.

[u/mitsuhiko → u/[deleted]]

Or you don't pass any ascii characters. Try opening an non ascii file and start your application through upstart for instance.