Maybe I’m misinterpreting that part of the original article, then. (I read it as implying that everything is hated, but UTF-8 and TCP are the least-hated – meaning someone quoting UTF-8 from that list of good things and implying it would only be put there by a non-Python programmer would be calling attention to some unpleasant part of Python’s UTF-8 handling. Phew! That reading does agree with the rest of the article with regards to TCP and with the fact that UTF-8 is a wonderful encoding, though.)