Le Thu, 4 Mar 2010 23:30:12 -0500, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> a écrit : > > If you really want to test that it's a unicode, shouldn't you > actually test its type? (I'm not sure what would happen with that > under 2to3.) Besides, the type of the string is very rarely > important, so I think the u-prefix and quotes is mostly just noise.
String type is actually very important, if you don't want your application/library to fail in the face of non-ASCII data. That's why we did all this thing in py3k, after all :) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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