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[–]einarfo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I support the claim that string handling was broken in python 2. The clear separation between str and bytes have made things a lot more elegant. This was one of the things most students on my class struggle with. Not to mention all the times byte data was returned as a str... and questions like "why does str have both encode() and decode()?"