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

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Dec 16 16:17:27 EST 2016

On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

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.

Or 3.5+ so you get percent formatting for bytes.

+1 for deprecating unicode_literals; I don't remember ever using or wanting it.

ChrisA

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