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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 12:04:09 +0200
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On 2024-08-23 10:29, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> The fundamental problem was that Unicode was a mess in Python 2 that
> needed to be cleaned up. Since they had no choice but to break backward
> compatibility in that regard, they figured they would fix a few other
> things while they were at it.

and again in Python 4... (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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