Twisted and Python 3

"There are effectively three string types in the Python [3] world: bytes, Unicode strings, and strings. And there are inconsistencies among them. For example, sys.path() returns bytes on Unix, but strings on other operating systems. In addition, cgi.parse_multipart() returns strings on Python 3, which is just wrong."

It'd be edifying to read about how this is a better situation (in python 3 versus 2) and/or how it might be ameliorated.

This at least is factually wrong; Python 3.3 made the 'u' prefix legal syntax again. On Python 3 it's effectively a no-op, since an un-prefixed string literal would be a Unicode string anyway on Python 3.