Python 3, ASCII, and UTF-8

Posted Dec 20, 2017 23:51 UTC (Wed) by togga (guest, #53103)
In reply to: Python 3, ASCII, and UTF-8 by kjp
Parent article: Python 3, ASCII, and UTF-8

"The entire python3 project is "purity over practicality"."

True, and this is the sad part. It shows all over, from changing "Queue" to "queue" to the whole string mess, it's like they're doing a piece of art that gets more and more abstract and detached from reality. After once chosen Python for practicality, every time I've tried to switch to python3 over the years I've got into more and more practical issues, up until the current mess...

"The Linux way; never ever break user experience".
https://felipec.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/the-linux-way/

That shouldn't be so hard, works for most other major languages out there. When did C have an regression like this?