I ' m . okay with that . ALL PRAISE BACON <| sep |> After reading both articles , I ' m totally behind eevee here . Seriously , fuck Zed . His article is not just a criticism of Python 3 which is totally fine I ' m more than willing to read criticism of Python 3 , it helps me learn more , it ' s a very deceptive , sloppy hatchetjob . I ' m actually at the point where I think I should petition the moderators of rlearnpython to remove Zed ' s book from the wiki I would hate for a beginner to be turned off Python 3 just because of his duplicitous statements about it . Also , it is so abundantly clear that Zed has never used anything above ASCII . My entire job is dealing with nonASCII characters , and I would be unbelievably crippled if I was stuck with Python 2 .