[Tutor] Python 2 & 3 and unittest

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de>
> To: tutor at python.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 8:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Python 2 & 3 and unittest
> 
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 09:11:50AM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> 
>>> I don't believe there is a way to make
>>> string literals unicode, you just have to get used to writing 
> u"" and
>>> b"" strings by hand.
>> 
>> Sorry, that is unclear. I meant to say, there is no way to force
>> unprefixed strings "" to be Unicode in 2.x.
> 
> For 2.6 and above there is
> 
> from __future__ import unicode_literals

I can't find the SO page I am looking for, but this is also an intesting one. Using the 'future' import may break code. But implicitly concatening byte/unicode strings is banned in python3 anyway. I am planning to checkout unicodenazi and ascii_with_complaints
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/809796/any-gotchas-using-unicode-literals-in-python-2-6