On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:16:39 -0500, Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 21:03 +0000, Vinay Sajip wrote: > > Yes, but making a backward step like reintroducing u'' just to make things a > > tiny little bit sucky doesn't seem to me to be worth it, because then >= > > 3.3 is > > different to 3.2 and earlier. Armin's suggestion of an install-time fixer is > > analogous to running 2to3 after every change, if you're trying to support > > 3.2 > > and 3.3+ at the same time, isn't it? You can't just edit-and-test, which to > > me > > is the main benefit of a single codebase. > > The downsides of a unicode_literals future import are spelled out in the > PEP: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0414/#rationale-and-goals
But the PEP doesn't address the unicode_literals plus str() approach. That is, the rationale currently makes a false claim. --David _______________________________________________ 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