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0 pointsCaptainMarvel6y ago0 comments

I’ve worked in a variety of Django codebases, and the last time I had trouble with string encoding/decoding was with Python 2. Since moving to Python 3, I have rarely needed to manually encode or decode, and I genuinely can't remember the last time I did.

Perhaps there’s something about a port that requires encoding/decoding bytes/strings?

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takeda6y ago

The encoding/decoding is heavy in codebases that have to run on Python 2 and Python 3 at the same time, and authors are worried about handling unicode correctly on python 2.

Ironically when your python 2 app doesn't care about unicode, the porting to python 3 is actually much easier.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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takeda6y ago

The encoding/decoding is heavy in codebases that have to run on Python 2 and Python 3 at the same time, and authors are worried about handling unicode correctly on python 2.

Ironically when your python 2 app doesn't care about unicode, the porting to python 3 is actually much easier.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse