As an example of the last point - Python 3 requires users to be exact about the encoding of their input, causing all sorts of trouble for unsuspecting scripters when they accidentally try to read ISO-8551 data as UTF-8, or vice versa. Python 2 did not, and for most scripts - not applications - I actually think that is the right choi

The author is probably american. Python 3 is a bless for is unicode encoding outside of ascii. a python2 break at random time, when some character outside of 0-128 range happen to arive, French speaker here