We are turning in circles. You are somehow legitimating the reintroduction of unicode literals and I shew, not to say proofed, it may be a source of problems.
Typical Python desease. Introduce a problem, then discuss how to solve it, but surely and definitivly do not remove that problem. As far as I know, Python 3.2 is working very well. jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list