[Python-Dev] from future import unicode_strings? (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas at xs4all.net
Thu Feb 16 02:43:02 CET 2006

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 05:23:56PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> from future import unicodestrings

Didn't we have a command-line option to do this? I believe it was removed because nobody could see the point. (Or am I hallucinating? After several days of non-stop discussing bytes that must be considered a possibility.)

We do, and it's not been removed: the -U switch.

Python 2.3.5 (#2, Nov 21 2005, 01:27:27)

"" u'' Python 2.4.2 (#2, Nov 21 2005, 02:24:28) "" u'' Python 2.5a0 (trunk:42390, Feb 16 2006, 00:12:03) "" u''

I've never seen it used, though, and IIRC there were quite a number of stdlib modules that broke when you used it, at least back when it was introduced.

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