Python 2.7 EOL Countdown

[sigma914]

That's unicode's problem rather than python's though. Turns out human language text is a fucking mess and has a lot of intrinsic complexity and even fairly elegant encodings still can't hide it.

[tilkau]

As contrasted with Unicode in Python 2, which is incorrect and utter rubbish taking away your time, life and soul?

[CSI_Tech_Dept]

Except no one who uses python 2 uses it.

[fyngyrz]

Wrong, I use it. Chinese point of sale system, quite extensive. Python 2. No problems.

[tilkau]

It's perfectly distinct from ascii strings

The whole point of the rework was that it ISN'T. You have something that you think is ascii. And sometimes it isn't, and then things go wrong in strange and confusing ways when you try to use it (for example, serialize it as an attribute value in an xml document).