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

Jim J. Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 22:56:48 CET 2012

In http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116953.html Terry J. Reedy wrote:

I presume that most 2.6 code has problems other than u'' when attempting to run under 3.x.

Why?

If you're talking about generic code that has seen minimal changes since 2.0, sure. But I think this request is specifically for projects that are thinking about python 3, but are trying to use a single source base regardless of version.

Using an automatic translation step means that python (or at least python 3) would no longer be the actual source code. I've worked with enough generated "source" code in other languages that it is worth some pain to avoid even a slippery slope.

By the time you drop 2.5, the "subset" language is already pretty good; if I have to write something version-specific, I prefer to treat that as a sign that I am using the wrong approach.

-jJ

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