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

Matěj Cepl mcepl at cepl.eu
Fri Dec 16 18:52:13 EST 2016

On 2016-12-16, 19:24 GMT, 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.

???

There has been absolute fanaticism about not changing anything in Python 2.* because of supposed stability of API, even in situations when I don’t think API was really in danger (http://bugs.python.org/issue19494). And now you would remove a feature which zillions of lines of code depend on, or at least could depend on?

And yes, I do use it in my current porting efforts of M2Crypto to be py2/3k compatible.

I don’t understand.

Matěj

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