On: About Python 3

[keyme]

If I recall, writing no boilerplate code was a big deal in python once...

And while 2 lines are not worth my rant, writing those 2 lines again and again all the time, is.

[baq → keyme]

i'd argue this is not boilerplate, more like a shortcut for your particular use case:

    import codecs
    enc = lambda x: codecs.encode(x, 'hex')
    

i have a program in python 2 that uses this approach, because i have a lot of decoding from utf and encoding to a different charset to do. python 3 is absolutely the same for me.