RFC: Python maintenance policy

[Sean Farley]

Brandon Allbery writes:

> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Sean Farley <sean at macports.org> wrote:
>
>> I actually have the back story for this from the last PyCon. Suffice to
>> say, it's because of Python 3 screwing up the treatment of unicode
>> strings.
>>
>
> Huh. I'd assumed arm-twisting from Red Hat, possibly with an education
> about enterprise support windows.

Here is a good article that outlines the frustration with unicode for
python libraries:

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/