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

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Thu Dec 8 23:09:59 CET 2011


=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> While this is true for FORTRAN, it is not for Python 1.5: no new
> Python 1.5 code is written around the world, at least not every day.

I don't know about that.  I've seen a lot of Python 2 code which was
apparently written by folks who learned Python 1.5.2 and never needed to
learn about newer features.  I suspect that's still going on fairly
widely.

Bill


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