Pragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain? 

Are you really AL Sweigart Love reading your book('Automate Booring stuff with python')

just finished the 6th chapter of Automate Boring Stuff with Python :)

I'm here watching it right now on your recommendation!

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Just got here from your book, Al! I'm brand new to programming and it's been invaluable so far. Ty! :)

Really? Is it really a break through? There is something more hiding behind than what he explains. There are very less people who come from C background explains these things pretty well. For me, this video will add more confusion, to new comers

If a new comer is more confused after watching this (ok, perhaps needing to watch it twice, while running the codes themselves too), then they are not ready to deal with the issue yet. I found this very helpful.

I agree. the solution "Pain relief" is so abstract for me.

Ну, тот комментарий скорее для русских учащих английский)

wow, that means to solve problems in python2, you just put everything with u' ' before any string? I am looking for solution.Thanks.

When he introduces himself with > 10 years python programming. It makes me think it will be useful. Yes, it's useful, but (seems that), it makes some novices in the room leaving early before he finished the talk even though it's a great talk. this is for advanced user only - i think.

Imagine you accept some sort of input(bytestring) with value "Hello"(using ascii characters) from "outside", you don't deal with it and your program adds that input to a unicode(talking python 2 here) ex: input + my_variable_that_holds_some_unicode. Python 2 will decode(using ascii) implicitly the input to unicode so it can make the concatenation and you would think that everything is ok and you know what your code is doing 100%. What if the next day that input can NOT be decoded implicitly(using ascii), for example the value is "Ηελλο"(Greek letters btw) ? Python 2 will try to decode "Ηελλο" using ascii characters and will fail and you dont want your program to crash! Thats the reason. So every time you need to explicitly decode your inputs and deal with any failures. Bytes are transferred outside through wires and at some point arrive in our programs and we want to deal with unicodes in our programs and not with bytes and when we are done then we encode them to make them bytes to send them outside again. I am not expert and actually I came today to watch it once again and I think I understood it this time, anyway this video is gold so save it for when you get more experience to come back and learn something new :)

Meaning every"picture" you see is actually unicode

Because all the "images" are indeed unicode characters.