2to3?
2to3?
Posted May 22, 2025 22:22 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: 2to3? by zahlman
Parent article: Recent disruptive changes from Setuptools
Python was horribly broken until around 3.5, when they finally re-allowed "+" and format operations for mixed strings/bytes ( https://peps.python.org/pep-0461/ ).
I spent countless hours debugging issues caused by an error handler somewhere that did not have a correct encode/decode for one of the arguments. It was painful.
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