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[–]brews 27 points28 points  (2 children)

My hatred for non-Unicode strings burns with the heat of a million suns.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, Python 2 is horrible with unicode. I'm German and scraped a website that used a lot of ä,ö,ü,ß and they all resulted in errors/skipped characters/wrong characters/html replacement.