Feb. 27, 2012
5:05 p.m.
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Am 26.02.2012 07:06, schrieb Nick Coghlan:
A small quibble: I'd like to see a benchmark of a 'u' function implemented in C. Even if it was quite fast, I don't think such a function would bring
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote: the same benefits as restoring support for u'' literals.
You claim that, but your argument doesn't actually support that claim (or I fail to see the argument).
Python 2.6 code: this = u'that' Python 3.3 code: this = u('that') Not source compatible, not elegant. (Even though 2to3 could make this fix, it's still kinda ugly.) ~Ethan~