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

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> If the 2.x code depends on having u'xxx' literals, then 3.2 testing will
> potentially involve running a fixer on all files in the project every time a
> change is made, writing to a separate directory, or else a fixer which is
> integrated into the editing environment so it knows what changed. This is
> painful, and what motivated PEP 314 in the first place - which seems ironic.

No, the real idea behind PEP 414 is that most ports that rely on it
simply won't support 3.2 - they will only target 3.3+.

The u"" fixer will just be one more tool in the arsenal of those that
*do* want to support 3.2 (either because they want to target Ubuntu's
LTS 3.2 stack, or for their own reasons). All of the other
alternatives (such as separate branches or the unicode_literals future
import) will also remain available to them.

Cheers,
Nick.

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