May 24, 2002
6:40 p.m.
GvR> Should we perhaps silently interpret Unicode literals as GvR> regular string literals when compiling without Unicode GvR> support?
+1, perhaps with a Warning?
-Barry
Adding the warning causes more code, while the only point of compiling without it is to have *less* code. Also, it would just cause tons of warnings when running the tests with Unicode disabled. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)