[Python-Dev] Python3 "complexity"

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Kristján Valur Jónsson writes:

 > Still playing the devil's advocate:
 > I didn't used to must.  Why must I must now?  Did the universe just
 > shift when I fired up python3?

No.  Go look at the Economist's tag cloud and notice how big "China"
and "India" are most days.  The universe has been shifting for 3
decades now, you just noticed it when you fired up Python 3.

 > Things were demonstatably working just fine before without doing
 > so.

Who elected you General Secretary of the UN?  Things were, and are
still, demonstrably fucked up for the world at large.  Python 3 is a
big contribution to un-fucking the rest of us[1], thank you very much
to Guido and Company!

It's not obvious how to do things right for those of us who have to
deal with 8-10 different encodings daily *on our desktops*, and still
make things easy for those of you who rarely see ISO 8859/N for N !=
1, let alone monstrosities like GB18030 or Shift JIS.  That latter is
a shame, but we're working on it (and have been all along -- it's not
easy).

Footnotes: 
[1]  Or will be when my employer adopts it. <sigh/>