I was surprised to recently notice a yellow banner on the website of the very popular Requests library, which urges users to switch to Python 3. That's when I first thought switching may become inevitable. I guess this is being orchestrated behind the scenes now.
https://docs.python-requests.org
Still, I have no plans to switch. The only useful feature in Python 3 to me is more liberal use of unpacking. Unfortunately it comes at the cost of removed tuple parameter unpacking, which I use often, but most users apparently never do. I don't know what's difficult about Unicode in Python 2 either, once you understand the difference between Unicode and UTF-8.
It's unfortunate it ever had to come to this. Makes you wonder what Python would be like today without Py3K. (It's an open question.)
https://docs.python-requests.org
Still, I have no plans to switch. The only useful feature in Python 3 to me is more liberal use of unpacking. Unfortunately it comes at the cost of removed tuple parameter unpacking, which I use often, but most users apparently never do. I don't know what's difficult about Unicode in Python 2 either, once you understand the difference between Unicode and UTF-8.
It's unfortunate it ever had to come to this. Makes you wonder what Python would be like today without Py3K. (It's an open question.)
(I mistakenly manually changed the link to HTTPS.)