March 18, 2008
6:47 a.m.
The test_support unit has this have_unicode. Do we need the Python's test unit to be *that* backward compatible? Is there still an implementation of Python that doesn't support unicode? If there is, should the test suite care?
It's still intended that you can build Python 2.6 without Unicode support, and that the test suite "mostly" works. If it doesn't, it's up to users who care about that feature to provide fixes, but you should not actively break it. Regards, Martin