[Python-Dev] from future import unicode_strings? (original) (raw)
Neil Schemenauer nas at arctrix.com
Thu Feb 16 01:36:35 CET 2006
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I'm in the process of summarizing the dicussion on the bytes object and an idea just occured to me. Imagine that I want to write code that deals with strings and I want to be maximally compatible with P3k. It would be nice if I could add:
from __future__ import unicode_stringsand have string literals without a 'u' prefix become unicode instances. I'm not sure how tricky the implementation would be but it seems like a useful feature.
An even crazier idea is to have that import change 'str' to be an alias for 'unicode'.
Neil
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