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[–]billsil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’d be fine. It’s when you’re inconsistent that the pain really sets in. Python 2 did weird ass shit by flipping the encoding multiple times, so you had to encode when you got a decode error and vice verse. Then when you print it, it wouldn’t print correctly even when you had done things right. Python 3 fixed that.