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

[Lennart Regebro]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
>  How about "from __future__ import py3k_literals" for Python 2.6? The
>  future statement turns several literals into Python 3.0 mode:
>
>  * '' creates an unicode object instead of a str object

That would be fantastic indeed.

>  * b'' creates a str object (aka bytes in Python 3.0)

It already does that, as b'' doesn't clash with any python 2 literal,
so that's already fixed.

>  * 1 creates a long instead of an int

I haven't come up with any case where you need to know if it is a int
or a long, except if you are stripping out the L from a repr. So I
don't think it's necessary. But maybe it could be helpful?

>  * 1L and u'' are invalid

That could be good, but deprecation warnings in -3 mode is enough, IMO.

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