Report from the Python Language Summit

> What does that have to do with the fact that bytes are not text/strings/characters?
The fact that sequences of UCS-4 codepoints are also not text/string/characters, just as sequences of raw bytes.

> Regardless of whether this is true or not, there is a lot of data in all kinds of encodings, and developers had better think about which one they are going to use when reading that data.
Python3 practically forces one to transcode data from one format to another all the time for no specific reason.