[Python-Dev] PEP 414

[Greg Ewing]

Nick Coghlan wrote:

> Armin's straw poll was actually about whether or not people used the
> future import for division, rather than unicode literals. It is indeed
> the same problem

There are differences, though. Personally I'm very glad of the
division import -- it's the only thing that keeps me sane when
using floats. The alternative is not only butt-ugly but imposes
an annoying performance penalty. I don't mind occasionally
needing to glance at the top of a module in order to get the
benefits.

On the other hand, it's not much of a burden to put 'u' in
front of string literals, and there is no performance difference.

-- 
Greg