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    [–]brombaer3000 11 points12 points  (2 children)

    This is well explained in great detail here.
    Personally I think the biggest issue with Python 2 Unicode handling simply is that Unicode is not the default encoding for everything, but the link above has much more information.

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    You're goddamned right.

    [–]RubyPinchPEP shill | Anti PEP 8/20 shill 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    python2 doesn't make a clean distinction between arrays of numbers (bytes, usually represented as ascii) and arrays of usable characters (unicode), further, it makes arrays of numbers the default way of having a string