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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks; the __future__ import in 2.6 sounds great.

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