Barry Warsaw schrieb: > I've missed most of this thread, but let me just put my two cents in. > I'd still like a future import to turn on unicode string literals (or > more accurately, treat unadorned string literals as unicodes). As > someone who is striving mightily to get various libraries and > applications unicode clean, it's simply a matter of training my brain > to correctly think, "this is a bytes" or "this is a string", and > training my fingers to type the right thing. > > I'd like to be able to start retraining the muscle memory so that by > the time 3.0 comes around, it'll will be a much smoother transition, > for me and other coders. > > Now, if it's not feasible to add such a future import, that's one > thing. If it's feasible then I think we should do it.
I'm working on a node based __future__ parser based on the Python 2.3 code as MvL suggested. I'm making good progress. If I get it working it should be trivial to implement a __future__ unicode_string_literals feature. Christian _______________________________________________ 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
