On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 02:43:02AM +0100, Thomas Wouters wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 05:23:56PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > > from __future__ import unicode_strings > > > Didn't we have a command-line option to do this? I believe it was > > removed because nobody could see the point. (Or am I hallucinating? > > After several days of non-stop discussing bytes that must be > > considered a possibility.) > > We do, and it's not been removed: the -U switch.
As Guido alluded, the global switch is useless. A per-module switch something that could actually useful. One nice advantage is that you would write code that works the same with Jython (wrt to string literals anyhow). Neil _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
