[Python-Dev] readd u'' literal support in 3.3?

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Dec 8 11:54:28 CET 2011


On 12/8/2011 1:31 AM, Chris McDonough wrote:

> What's the case against?

 From a 3.x perpective, an irrelevant 'u' would be pure noise and make 
the language a bit harder to learn. The intent for 3.x is that one be 
able to learn 3.x without knowing anything about 2.x. So bridge stuff 
has been put into 2.6 and even more in 2.7. But it does not really 
belong in 3.x.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy



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