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by Avernar 3675 days ago
High quality unicode? Where every string with even a single emoji takes 4 times the memory. They should have used UTF-8 for their internal representation.

Putting that aside, my issue with 3.X is that I have to use the unicode type even when I'm manipulating byte strings.
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scrollaway 3675 days ago
> even when I'm manipulating byte strings

What? No you don't. The `bytes` object is what you want when you deal with byte strings.

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Avernar 3675 days ago
The bytes object is not a string type. It's treated more like a list of integers. It has very little string operations. Only in 3.5 did they add back the ability to % format.

Not to mention all the b prefixes it just becomes painful.

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