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

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Thu Mar 20 20:21:37 CET 2008


Thomas Wouters schrieb:
  > This surprises me greatly. The reason this is true in 2.x is for the 
obvious
> backward compatibility. 3.0 is about not worrying about backward
> compatibility. Why do we need to keep the future imports?
> 

The __future__ docs say "No feature description will ever be deleted 
from __future__."

ever is a very strong word and I expect Python 3.x to follow the rule.

Christian


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