On Dec 16, 2016, at 01:07 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: >On 12/16/2016 11:24 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> I am beginning to think that `from __future__ import unicode_literals` does >> more harm than good. I don't recall exactly why we introduced it, but with >> the restoration of u"" literals in Python 3.3 we have a much better story >> for writing straddling code that is unicode-correct. > >So cross-version code would be primarily 2.7 and 3.3+ ? I can live with that.
So can I. I don't mind "silently" deprecating it, such as adding strong admonitions against its use in the docs, but clearly it can't be removed (at least until 3.7) and I worry about breaking existing code, even with a more chatty DeprecationWarning. At least in some circles, the problems of unicode_literals are known, but it's still useful and it's used in lots of places. Getting rid of cruft like this is one of the more satisfying edits when dropping Python 2 support. :) Cheers, -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com