Python — what is NOT in 2.7 that IS in 3.1? So many things have been back-ported, what is NOT?

The most important thing is probably unicode throughout. So there is no need anymore to fiddle around with str/unicode. This sounds small but has huge (positive) implications when you think of OS interaction - for example everyone has to try hard to give you 'usable' strings instead of 'a binary thing that might be an error message'.

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