On Dec 9, 5:24 pm, Bill McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Try: from __future__ import unicode_literals -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
