On 03/12/2019 19.09, Barry Warsaw wrote: > 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.
I'm 100% with Barry. We can certainly document the "u" string prefix as deprecated. I'm strongly against removing it from Python 3 or even raising a deprecation warning. Let's leave it to linters and maybe consider deprecation for Python 4. Or maybe not. Christian _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/4GGYZ6XNEH5OQDYC6VLH2MADUVD5LGF3/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
