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

[Christian Heimes]

Martin v. Löwis schrieb:
>> Since 2.4  Python uses the AST tree to access the future flags. But the
>> string unicode literals require the information before the AST tree is
>> created.
> 
> "We" should have considered that 2.5 still had to support future
> statements in the parser, for the with_statement, so I think this would
> have been unnecessary.
> 
> Whoever implemented "from __future__ import print_function" knew about
> that, and added it were it belongs (even though the function name
> has the work "hack" in it).

I tried to use the future_hack. However there is no way to access
parser_state->p_flags in PyAST_FromNode(). I don't see a way to get the
information from the parser into the AST code. The current API has no
means to transfer the information. The flags option doesn't do the trick.

Christian