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

Chris McDonough chrism at plope.com
Fri Dec 9 06:33:59 CET 2011

On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 19:52 -0500, Glyph wrote:

Zooming back in to the actual issue this thread is about, I think the u""-vs-"" issue is a bit of a red herring, because the real problem here is that 2to3 is slow and buggy and so migration efforts are starting to work around it, and therefore want to run the same code on 3.x and all the way back to 2.5.

Even if it weren't slow, I still wouldn't use it to automatically convert code at install time; a single codebase is easier to reason about, and easier to support. Users send me tracebacks all the time; having them match the source is a wonderful thing.

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