On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:51, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Lennart Regebro <regebro <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> I'm +1 on the PEP, for reasons already repeated here. >> We need three types of strings when supporting both Python 2 and >> Python 3. A binary string, a unicode string and a "native" string, ie >> one that is the old 8-bit str in python 2 but a Unicode str in Python >> 3. > > Well it's a done deal, and as I said elsewhere on the thread, I wasn't > opposing > the PEP, but wanting some improvements in it. ISTM that given the PEP as it > is, > working across 3.2 and 3.3 on a single codebase may not always be the easiest > process (IIUC you have to run a mini2to3 process, and it'll need to be > cleverer > than 2to3 about running over the entire codebase if it's to appear seamless),
Distribute helps with this. I think we might have to add a support in distribute to easily exclude the fixer that removes u''-prefixes, I don't remember if there is an "exclude" feature. _______________________________________________ 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
