[Python-Dev] Deprecate from __future__ import unicode_literals? (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri Dec 16 16:07:01 EST 2016

On 12/16/2016 11:24 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I am beginning to think that from _future_ import unicodeliterals does more harm than good. I don't recall exactly why we introduced it, but with the restoration of u"" literals in Python 3.3 we have a much better story for writing straddling code that is unicode-correct.

So cross-version code would be primarily 2.7 and 3.3+ ? I can live with that.

-- Ethan

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