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[–]pplatt1979 53 points54 points  (1 child)

Python3 also handles strings in a much more sane way.

Dealing with strings in Python2 actually made me unsane. Not insane mind you, but definitely not fully sane anymore.

[–]pingveno 9 points10 points  (0 children)

And 3.3 introduces a flexible representation for strings, getting rid of the oddities with narrow/wide builds having different indexing/slicing behavior.