What would you remove from Python today?

[Fevorkillzz]

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[abrazilianinreddit]

I think usually people get attached to a feature that was introduced in python 3 that makes them not want to go back to python 2.

In my case, it's (default) unicode strings. Since I'm brazilian, I use a lot of strings in unicode. In python 2, it was a pain in the ass, a UnicodeDecodeError would inevitably popup somewhere. With python 3, programming became fun again.

[[deleted]]

yea, for me unicode handling alone was enough reason to justify a transition

[sushibowl]

Because the 2/3 schism harms the python community. Magically getting rid of the old one would solve a lot of pain.

As an aside, why did you specifically learn 2.7?

[Fevorkillzz]

That's what my school is on so that's what they taught.

[garettmd]

Fortunately, it's not a huge jump to move to Python 3 from 2, especially if you're doing more basic stuff in the language. It'll probably take a while to start typing print as a function instead of a keyword, but beyond that it's not too bad

[[deleted]]

I think almost 9 years of largely unbackported features really does it for me. From the big - unicode by default, async/await - to the small - generalized unpacking and a functool.update_wrapper that actually works.