[Python-Dev] PEP 414

Fri Mar 2 21:39:51 CET 2012

On Mar 02, 2012, at 03:13 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:
>FWIW, I think this issue's webness may be overestimated. There happens to be
>lots and lots of existing UI code which contains complex interactions between
>unicode literals and nonliterals in web apps, but there's also likely lots of
>nonweb code that has the same issue. If e.g. wxPython had already been
>ported, I think you'd be hearing the same sorts of things from folks that had
>investments in existing Python-2-compatible code when trying to port stuff to
>Py3 (at least if they wanted to run on both Python 2 and Python 3 within the
>same codebase).

Okay, I just want to be very careful about the message we're sending here,
because I think many libraries and applications will work fine with the
facilities available in today's stable releases, i.e. unicode_literals and
b-prefixes. For these, there's no need to define "native strings", nor do
they require language constructs above what's already available.
-Barry
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