[Python-3000] Enough with the u"string" already!

[Lennart Regebro]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> I haven't read that thread yet (and probably never will), but I want
>  to draw a line in the sand. In order to avoid a slippery slope, I'm
>  not putting backwards compatibility in 3.0 for stuff we want killed
>  *except* for certain exceptions that 2to3 can't fix. (The only one I
>  am aware of being % formatting, which will survive alongside .format()
>  for now.)
>
>  Hopefully this will kill the discussion.

The discussion pretty much immediately moved from u"" in 3.0 to a
__future__ import in 2.6. The rest of the discussion proved ultimately
pointless and can safely be ignored.

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