[Python-Dev] from __future__ import unicode_strings?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> wrote:
> 
>>>>     from __future__ import unicode_strings
>>> Didn't we have a command-line option to do this? I believe it was
>>> removed because nobody could see the point. (Or am I hallucinating?
>>> After several days of non-stop discussing bytes that must be
>>> considered a possibility.)
>> We do, and it's not been removed: the -U switch.
> 
> 
> It's not in the output of "python -h", though. Is it secret or what?

Yes.

We removed it from the help output to not confuse users
who are not aware of the fact that this is an experimental
switch.

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