[Python-Dev] PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3 (original) (raw)
Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Sun Feb 26 23:44:29 CET 2012
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On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 22:13, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
If this can encourage more projects to support Python 3 (even if it's only 3.3 and later) and hence improve adoption of Python 3, I'm all for it.
+1 from me for the same reasons.
If this were to go in then for Python 3.3 the section of the porting HOWTO on what to do when you support Python 2.6 and later ( http://docs.python.org/howto/pyporting.html#python-2-3-compatible-source) would change to:
- Use
from __future__ import print_functionsOR useprint(x)but always with a single argument OR use six - Use
from __future__ import unicode_literalsOR make sure to use the 'u' prefix for all Unicode strings (and then mention the concept of native strings) or use six - Use the 'b' prefix for byte literals or use six
All understandable and with either a future import solution or syntactic support solution for all issues, giving people the choice of either approach for what they prefer for each approach. I would also be willing to move the Python 2/3 compatible source section to the top and thus implicitly become the preferred way to port since people in the community have seemingly been gravitating towards that approach even without this help.
-Brett
A small quibble: I'd like to see a benchmark of a 'u' function implemented
in C.
--Guido On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Armin Ronacher <armin.ronacher at active-4.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I just uploaded PEP 414 which proposes am optional 'u' prefix for string > literals for Python 3. > > You can read the PEP online: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0414/ > > This is a followup to the discussion about this topic here on the > mailinglist and on twitter/IRC over the last few weeks. > > > Regards, > Armin _> ________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org
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