[Python-Dev] PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Feb 27 23:06:14 CET 2012

Indeed, the wrangling has gone too far already. I'm accepting the PEP. It's about as harmless as they come. Make it so.

--Guido van Rossum (sent from Android phone) On Feb 27, 2012 1:12 PM, "Chris McDonough" <chrism at plope.com> wrote:

On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 21:07 +0000, Paul Moore wrote: > On 27 February 2012 20:39, Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com> wrote: > > Note that u'' literals are sort of the tip of the iceberg here; > > supporting them will obviously not make development under the subset an > > order of magnitude less sucky, just a tiny little bit less sucky. There > > are other extremely annoying things, like str(bytes) returning the repr > > of a bytestring on Python 3. That's almost as irritating as the absence > > of u'' literals, but we have to evaluate one thing at a time. > > So. Am I misunderstanding here, or are you suggesting that this > particular PEP doesn't help you much, but if it's accepted, it > represents "the thin end of the wedge" for a series of subsequent PEPs > suggesting fixes for a number of other "extremely annoying things"...? > > I'm sure that's not what you meant, but it's certainly what it sounded > like to me!

I'm way too lazy. The political wrangling is just too draining (especially over something so trivial). But I will definitely support other proposals that make it easier to straddle, sure. - C

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