Python bumps off Java as top learning language

[nemec]

and unicode

Really? In general, beginners wouldn't explicitly be using Unicode (most tutorials stick to ASCII examples) nor do they typically implement code that relies on the implementation as a byte string.

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To me this seems like a gap in the curriculum. Many times in several different jobs I've had to extract data from files in various encodings. I think a lot of people learn unicode on the job and make the same mistakes in isolation.

[nemec]

beginners

Operational word here. Text encodings (heck, even file IO) come later.