[Python-3000] Python 3.0 Porting Strategies

[Eric Smith]

Eric Smith wrote:
> Greg Ewing wrote:
>> Charles Merriam wrote:
>>> How can I write the greatest common denominator of this code:
>>>
>>> print "Hello World!"  # yes, that needs to be Unicode.
>> Something like
>>
>>    from __future__ import unicode_literals
>>    from py3k_compat import Print
>>
>>    Print("Hello World!") # yes, that indeed is Unicode.
>>
>> given suitable implementations of py3k_compat for
>> each environment.
>>
> 
> Am I missing something here?  What's wrong with:
> 
> $ ./python.exe
> Python 2.6a1+ (trunk:61978, Mar 27 2008, 12:48:39)
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> from __future__ import unicode_literals
>  >>> from __future__ import print_function
>  >>> print('hello, world')
> hello, world
>  >>> type('hello, world')
> <type 'unicode'>
>  >>>
> 
> The only problem I see is that the __future__ import of unicode_literals 
> doesn't work in 3.0 yet.  I'll look into fixing that.

Someone beat me to it.  Those exact same statements already work in 
trunk and py3k (except the type of a string literal is str, of course).