[Python-Dev] Proposal: from __future__ import unicode_string_literals

[Barry Warsaw]

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I've missed most of this thread, but let me just put my two cents in.   
I'd still like a future import to turn on unicode string literals (or  
more accurately, treat unadorned string literals as unicodes).  As  
someone who is striving mightily to get various libraries and  
applications unicode clean, it's simply a matter of training my brain  
to correctly think, "this is a bytes" or "this is a string", and  
training my fingers to type the right thing.

I'd like to be able to start retraining the muscle memory so that by  
the time 3.0 comes around, it'll will be a much smoother transition,  
for me and other coders.

Now, if it's not feasible to add such a future import, that's one  
thing.  If it's feasible then I think we should do it.

- -Barry

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