On 10/15/2012 09:05 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Hi! > > I need a little nudge in the right direction, as I'm misunderstanding > something concerning string literals in Python 2 and 3. In Python 2.7, > b'' and '' are byte strings, while u'' is a unicode literal. In Python > 3.2, b'' is a byte string and '' is a unicode literal, while u'' is a > syntax error. > > This actually came as a surprise to me, I assumed that using b'' I > could portably create a byte string (which is true) and using u'' I > could portably create a unicode string (which is not true). This > feature would help porting code between both versions. While this is a > state I can live with, I wonder what the rationale for this is. > > !puzzled thanks > > Uli
Python 3.3 added that syntax, for easier porting. You can now use u"xyz" for a unicode string in both 2.x and 3.3 -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list