On Dec 3, 2019, at 09:16, Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The 'u" string literal prefix was removed in 3.0 and reintroduced in 3.3 to > help writing the code compatible with Python 2 and 3 [1]. After the dead of > Python 2.7 we will remove some deprecated features kept for compatibility > with 2.7. When we are going to deprecate and remove the "u" prefix?
I think removing or even deprecating it will cause unnecessary code churn in third party libraries, for very little value. Let’s just call it a wart until Python 4000. -Barry
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