Reply to post: Re: More lazyness than anything

Re: More lazyness than anything

Working with bytes isn't any more difficult in Python 3 than it was with Python 2 except it's now more explicit and you can no longer even try to encode already encoded strings. But allowing us to use the u-prefix in 3.3 did make it a lot easier to make the intent clearer where code was likely to use both unicode and bytes a lot.