[Python-Dev] Backporting PEP 3101 to 2.6

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jan 10, 2008, at 9:07 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> On 2008-01-10 14:31, Eric Smith wrote:
>> (I'm posting to python-dev, because this isn't strictly 3.0 related.
>> Hopefully most people read it in addition to python-3000).
>>
>> I'm working on backporting the changes I made for PEP 3101 (Advanced
>> String Formatting) to the trunk, in order to meet the pre-PyCon  
>> release
>> date for 2.6a1.
>>
>> I have a few questions about how I should handle str/unicode.  3.0  
>> was
>> pretty easy, because everything was unicode.
>
> Since this is a new feature, why bother with strings at all
> (even in 2.6) ?
>
> Use Unicode throughout and be done with it.

+1
- -Barry

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