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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Dec 9 09:32:03 CET 2011

Or, alternatively, you use 'six' (or a similar compatibility module) and ensure unicode at runtime, using native or binary strings otherwise:

---------- from six import u foo = u("this is a Unicode string in both Python 2.x and 3.x") bar = "this is an 8-bit string in Python 2.x and a Unicode string in 3.x" baz = b"this is an 8-bit string in Python 2.x and a bytes object in 3.x" ----------

An alternative here is to use a function for bar, not foo:

from future import unicode_literals from six.next import native_str foo = "this is a Unicode string in both Python 2.x and 3.x" bar = native_str("this is an 7-bit string in Python 2.x" " and a Unicode string in 3.x") baz = b"this is an 8-bit string in Python 2.x and a bytes object in 3.x"

Which of them is "better" depends on which of the two string types are more common.

Regards, Martin

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