r/Python • • May 26 '14

Python 3 is killing Python

https://medium.com/@deliciousrobots/5d2ad703365d/
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u/TankorSmash May 26 '14

The alternative is dealing with those warts that built up. This is a necessary evil!

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u/flying-sheep May 26 '14
  1. It has no way to use undecodable bytes as filenames on Unix (which should be possible)

But that's it AFAIK.

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u/mitsuhiko Flask Creator May 26 '14

Surrogate escapes are a terrible wart. Way worse than bytes vs unicode in python 2. There is still no good way to deal with surrogate escapes as far as i know.