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

[Neal Norwitz]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> 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.

Two options exist here:  http://bugs.python.org/issue2477
I have no plans to finish this patch off anytime soon.  But this
should be enough to make further progress.

n