On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:41 AM Matt Billenstein via pypy-dev < pypy-dev@python.org> wrote:
> You can think of 'u' as being the default in python3 where 'b' was the > default in python2 (not ascii) - but most stdlib functions would accept > bytes as strings. > > So in python3, you don't need 'u' and you only occasionally need 'b' or > to convert between the two. The defaults are generally better for the > programming most people do imo. > I think you mostly don't want u'foo' in 3.x or b'foo' in 2.x - except when you're writing code intended to run on both.
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