[Python-Dev] PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 27, 2012, at 03:39 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:

>Note that u'' literals are sort of the tip of the iceberg here;
>supporting them will obviously not make development under the subset an
>order of magnitude less sucky, just a tiny little bit less sucky.  There
>are other extremely annoying things, like str(bytes) returning the repr
>of a bytestring on Python 3.  That's almost as irritating as the absence
>of u'' literals, but we have to evaluate one thing at a time.

Yeah, that one has bitten me many times, and for me it *is* more irritating
because it's harder to work around.

-Barry