[Python-Dev] PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3 (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Feb 27 22:54:51 CET 2012

On 2/27/2012 1:17 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I just don't understand the pushback here at all. This is such a nobrainer.

I agree. Just let's start deprecating it too, so that once Python 2.x compatibility is no longer relevant we can eventually stop supporting it (though that may have to wait until Python 4...). We need to send some sort of signal that this is a compatibility hack and that no new code should use it. Maybe a SilentDeprecationWarning?

Before we make this change, I would like to know if this is Armin's last proposal to revert Python 3 toward Python 2 or merely the first in a series. I question this because last December Armin wrote

"And in my absolutely personal opinion Python 3.3/3.4 should be more like Python 2* and Python 2.8 should happen and be a bit more like Python 3."

Chris has also made it clear that he (also?) would like more reversions.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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