Python 3.15 is out with explicit lazy imports, UTF-8 as the default encoding, frozendict and sentinel types, the Tachyon ...

As far as I'm concerned, it is silly to claim that Python's Unicode strings are “strictly not better” than byte sequences when it is possible, in Python 3, to open a text file using the built-in open( ...

I'm against making magic "unicode" strings with unspecified encoding and then forcing everything to use these strings. The idea behind “Unicode” strings is that they are not encoded at all (so much ...