Putting aside the fact that this change was made to *increase* performance, I'd ...

djrobstep on Feb 5, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Migrating to Python 3 with pleasure

Putting aside the fact that this change was made to increase performance, I'd rather have a language that's useful, expressive, and semantically powerful by default, instead of one that is less powerful and harder to use but slightly faster.