Re: strings, I was referring to what I said already and you quoted only part of it:
> It's odd to me that they were willing to break so much code with 3.0 (by "fixing" strings and Unicode) but a couple decorators held this one back.
> It's odd to me that they were willing to break so much code with 3.0 (by "fixing" strings and Unicode) but a couple decorators held this one back.
Removing self would be a far more massive change - it wouldn't just impact certain strings, it would impact every Python class.