[Python-Dev] PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3

[Lennart Regebro]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 16:39, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Another pertinent question: "What are disadvantages of PEP 414 is adopted?"
>
> It's moot, but as I see it: the purpose of PEP 414 is to facilitate a single
> codebase across 2.x and 3.x.

The bytes/native/unicode issue is an issue even if you use 2to3. But
of course that *is* a form of "single codebase" so maybe that's what
you meant. :-)

//Lennart