On: Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support

[__d]

I have a contrary anecdote: for the sorts of work I do, having to distinguish between strings and bytes makes using Python3 more difficult, and more prone to errors.

I mostly deal with network protocols, lots of numeric content, and scarcely any non-English text.

But I appreciate other people have different needs.

[joshuamorton → __d]

I feel like the answer to this is "then use bytes everywhere". Why doesn't that work?

[orf → __d]

That's akin to saying:

> For the sorts of work I do, having to distinguish between lists and dictionaries makes using Python 3 more difficult and more prone to errors. I mostly deal with lists, and scaresely any dictionaries.

Just use bytes where appropriate.