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by orf 3347 days ago
> How can you call one a flaming garbage heap and the other a nice language?

The lack of UnicodeDecodeErrors.

Just because there is a 90% overlap doesn't mean one can't be a pile of trash (i think that's a bit harsh though). The improvements under the hood are huge (unicode, no 'new-style' classes, speed improvements etc) as well as syntactic sugar means that as time goes on Python 2 looks worse and worse.