[Python-Dev] PEP 414

Sat Mar 3 07:20:14 CET 2012

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 01:49, <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> Zitat von Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com>:
>>>> Just my 2 cents on the PEP rewrite:
>>>> u'' support is not just if you want to write code that doesn't use
>> 2to3. Even when you use 2to3 it is useful to be able to flag strings s
>> binary, unicode or "native".
>> How so? In the Python 3 code, the u"" prefix would not appear, even if
> appears in the original source, as 2to3 eliminates it.

Well, not if you disable that fixer. ;-)
But you are right, it isn't necessary. I was thinking of 3to2,
actually. That was one of the objections I had to the usefulness of
3to2, there is no way to make the distinction between unicode and
native strings. (The u'' prefix hence actually makes 3to2 a realistic
option, and that's good.)
So everyone can ignore this, I mixed up two issues. :-)
//Lennart