# Brett Cannon - Why Python 3 exists

<http://www.snarky.ca/why-python-3-exists>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

And it's the fact that there are two correct answers in Python 2 for what the str object represents that led to changing the language so that the single Python 3 answer was the only answer.

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