Dec. 3, 2019
8:09 p.m.
On Dec 3, 2019, at 09:16, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> wrote:
The 'u" string literal prefix was removed in 3.0 and reintroduced in 3.3 to help writing the code compatible with Python 2 and 3 [1]. After the dead of Python 2.7 we will remove some deprecated features kept for compatibility with 2.7. When we are going to deprecate and remove the "u" prefix?
I think removing or even deprecating it will cause unnecessary code churn in third party libraries, for very little value. Let’s just call it a wart until Python 4000. -Barry