Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jan 31, 2010, at 01:44 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> We deliberate don't document -U because its typical effect is "break the >> world" - it makes all strings unicode in 2.x. > > As an aside, I think this should be documented *somewhere* other than just in > import.c! I'd totally forgotten about it until I read the source and almost > missed it. Either it should be documented or it should be ripped out.
Ripping it out is probably a reasonable idea given that there is a much better approach available now (i.e. trying to run under Py3k) that actually has a vague hope of working. Then again, if 2.7 really is the last non-maintenance 2.x release, what's to be gained by messing with it? Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
