"Martin v. Löwis" once (20 Sep 2005) wrote in reply to my question...
Simpler transition to PEP 3000 "Unicode only strings"? > As for dropping the u prefix on string literals: > Just try the -U option of the interpreter some time, > which makes all string literals Unicode. If you manage > to get the standard library working this way, you > won't need a per-file decision anymore: just start > your program with 'python -U'. I have failed to find the -U option in Python 2.4.2. Is it something under development? Thanks, pepr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list