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

[Vinay Sajip]

Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Another pertinent question: "What are disadvantages of PEP 414 is adopted?"

It's moot, but as I see it: the purpose of PEP 414 is to facilitate a single
codebase across 2.x and 3.x. However, it only does this if your 3.x interest is
3.3+. If you also want to or need to support 3.0 - 3.2, it makes your workflow
more painful, because you can't run tests on 2.x or 3.3 and then run them on 3.2
without an intermediate source conversion step - just like the 2to3 step that
people find painful when it's part of maintenance workflow, and which in part
prompted the PEP in the first place.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip