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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Dec 9 04:38:16 CET 2011


On Dec 08, 2011, at 06:53 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Are you saying that with that future import, b"..." is still a Unicode literal?

No, the future import has no impact on b-strings.

-----snip snip----- from future import print_function import sys print(sys.version_info.major, sys.version_info.minor, type(b'')) -----snip snip-----

$ python /tmp/foo.py 2 7 <type 'str'> $ python3 /tmp/foo.py 3 2 <class 'bytes'>

-----snip snip----- from future import print_function, unicode_literals import sys print(sys.version_info.major, sys.version_info.minor, type(b'')) -----snip snip-----

$ python /tmp/foo.py 2 7 <type 'str'> $ python3 /tmp/foo.py 3 2 <class 'bytes'>

Cheers, -Barry



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