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

Eric Smith eric+python-dev at trueblade.com
Thu Mar 20 20:19:10 CET 2008


Christian Heimes wrote:
> 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
> 

Okay.  I'll add it to py3k.



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