[Python-Dev] readd u'' literal support in 3.3? (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Thu Dec 8 07🔞06 CET 2011

2011/12/8 Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com>:

On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 01:02 -0500, Benjamin Peterson wrote:

2011/12/8 Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com>: > On the heels of Armin's blog post about the troubles of making the same > codebase run on both Python 2 and Python 3, I have a concrete > suggestion. > > It would help a lot for code that straddles both Py2 and Py3 to be able > to make use of u'' literals.

Helpful or not helpful, I think that ship has sailed. The earliest it could see the light of day is 3.3, which would leave people trying to support 3.1 and 3.2 in a bind. Right.. the title does say "readd ... support in 3.3".  Are you suggesting "the ship has sailed" for eternity because it can't be supported in Python < 3.3?

I'm questioning the real utility of it.

-- Regards, Benjamin

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