[Python-Dev] Allowing Unicode literals even without Unicode support?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Many test modules fail because they use Unicode literals.  It's easy
> enough to skip Unicode-related tests (just test for the existence of
> 'unicode'), but it's hard to avoid having Unicode literals in the text
> at all.  Should we perhaps silently interpret Unicode literals as
> regular string literals when compiling without Unicode support?

That would be like silently truncating floats to integers. It works
as long as x == int(x), but doesn't for fractional values.

-0 if you make sure that the literal is plain ASCII.
-1 if you don't.

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