Re: [Python-Dev] Backporting PEP 3101 to 2.6

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On Jan 10, 2008, at 9:07 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

On 2008-01-10 14:31, Eric Smith wrote:

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(I'm posting to python-dev, because this isn't strictly 3.0 related. Hopefully most people read it in addition to python-3000).

I'm working on backporting the changes I made for PEP 3101 (Advanced String Formatting) to the trunk, in order to meet the pre-PyCon release date for 2.6a1.

I have a few questions about how I should handle str/unicode. 3.0 was pretty easy, because everything was unicode.

Since this is a new feature, why bother with strings at all (even in 2.6) ?

Use Unicode throughout and be done with it.

+1 - -Barry