On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:36:35 +0000 (UTC), Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm in the process of summarizing the dicussion on the bytes object >and an idea just occured to me. Imagine that I want to write code >that deals with strings and I want to be maximally compatible with >P3k. It would be nice if I could add: > > from __future__ import unicode_strings > >and have string literals without a 'u' prefix become unicode >instances. I'm not sure how tricky the implementation would be but >it seems like a useful feature.
FWIW, I've considered this before, and superficially at least, it seems attractive. > >An even crazier idea is to have that import change 'str' to be >an alias for 'unicode'. That's further than I went, though :) Until there's a replacement for str, this would make it impossible to do certain things with that __future__ import in effect. Jean-Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
