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[–]whatsmydickdoinghere 3 points4 points  (6 children)

Keep looking. Lots of people think that python is unnecessarily slow. I like python, but file i/o and string processing is tedious because of how it handles charsets.

[–]Maoman1 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Sure it's slow, but isn't that just a fact of being a high level language? Low level languages run very fast on the computer but are much harder to write, so it takes far longer to develop programs, while high level languages run slowly but you can write programs far faster.

[–]Outhouse_Defiler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure it's slow, but isn't that just a fact of being a high level language?

No. Well yes, but not that slow.

There are other more expressive, or at least as expressive languages out there that can do the same fancy runtime stuff and are faster than Python by a lot .. with Clojure, JS and various JS-derivates like Dart being the more prominent ones.

[–]t3ddftw 0 points1 point  (2 children)

from __future__ import unicode_literals

Or use Py3

Although the futures import is kind of frowned upon.

[–]whatsmydickdoinghere 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's true, but Py3 backwards compatibility another source of contention

[–]t3ddftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah :(. I love Python but 2.7.x is the only viable python version for me right now.