On 2008-12-09, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In Python 2.x unmarked string literals are bytestrings. In Python 3.x > they're Unicode. The intention is to make the transition from 2.x to 3.x > easier by adding some features of 3.x to 2.x, but without breaking > backwards compatibility (not entirely successfully!).
It is a bit ugly. In 2.6 StringIO won't take bytestrings, so I apply u'x'. But in 3.0 u'x' will be gone and I'll have to change the code again. It's a small effort for what I am working on, but frustrating trying to puzzle this out from the docs, which I couldn't do. -Bill -- Sattre Press History of Astronomy http://sattre-press.com/ During the 19th Century [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Agnes M. Clerke http://sattre-press.com/han.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
