[StewardMcOy]

I'm glad it's improved. I moved jobs a couple years ago, and since then, have only used Python for a few small personal projects. When I left, there were still some very rough edges around some very popular (and some not so popular) libraries.

And, as I said, I do prefer the str/bytes split over the unicode/str split, but I also wasn't doing a lot of raw byte manipulation. I agree that it was harder to do with the old str than bytes. I was mostly doing string operations on the grapheme cluster level, and then writing everything out as UTF-8, so I didn't see as much of the benefit.