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Asked: 2026-05-16T01:51:02+00:00

I learned Python as my first serious (non BASIC) language about 10 years ago.

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I learned Python as my first serious (non BASIC) language about 10 years ago. Since then, I have learned lots of others, but I tend to ‘think’ in Python. When I look at the list of changes I do not see one I need this feature. I usually say to myself, hmm that would been a good way of doing it, but why change it now?

Things like changing the default floor division could be a real pain to change for big projects. It seems like the major players are dragging their feet. What is the key feature that would make me want to invest in another learning curve?

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    As a key feature, a lot of people seem to be pretty exited about (supposedly) transparent unicode support. They changed it from str (8-bit char array/default string type) and unicode (unicode string), to str (default (unicode compatable) string) and bytes (binary data as 8-bit ‘string’).

    (I think seperation of byte lists from strings is great idea, but I also hate unicode, so if anything, this would be a worse for me personally.)

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