[Python-3000] u'text' as an alias for 'text'?

[Lennart Regebro]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Charles Merriam
<charles.merriam at gmail.com> wrote:
>  The problem is not the gratuitous removal of the leading 'u', but the
>  subtle problems when
>  the code looks nearly identical.  The most likely one to cause
>  problems is the new semantics
>  of the keys operations.   While I haven't read the 3.0 code, this is
>  what was stated at Guido's
>  last talk.

No, the problem is the lack of u'' support. I've tried. :)

The new semantics of the keys operation means that keys() will work
like iterkeys() works now. This is not a problem unless you try to use
the result of keys() as a list, which isn't commonly done. Those types
of problems is however completely unavoidable in any case, 2to3 won't
solve them either, as I understand it.

I like your t"Hello" literal, it's prettier than the standard
_("Hello") binding, and this is a parallell case to the u("Hello")
binding I mentioned before as a partial workaround for the unicode
problem. Perhaps something to think about for 3.1?

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