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by andreasvc 4417 days ago
> I'd be a lot more willing to listen to this argument if it didn't overlook basic stuff like this.

Just because there's a way around this particular issue doesn't mean that the attitude of Unicode by default of Python 3 isn't problematic. There's also sys.argv, os.listdir, and other filename stuff which Python 3 attempts to decode.