May 24, 2002
5:24 p.m.
I'm not sure having to write unicode("...") instead of u"..." qualifies as "hard", but life would be a bit easier if we didn't have to...
Life's hard enough without artificial discomfort.
Should we perhaps silently interpret Unicode literals as regular string literals when compiling without Unicode support?
+1.0 on silently accepting ASCII-only u-literals also in non- unicode builds.
-0.2 on silently accepting non-ASCII u-literals (your patch didn't deal with that, right?).
No, all I did was skip the 'u'. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)