On Jun 18, 8:45 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 6/18/2012 12:39 PM, jmfauth wrote: > > > We are turning in circles. > > You are, not we. Please stop. > > > You are somehow legitimating the reintroduction of unicode > > literals > > We are not 'reintroducing' unicode literals. In Python 3, string > literals *are* unicode literals. > > Other developers reintroduced a now meaningless 'u' prefix for the > purpose of helping people write 2&3 code that runs on both Python 2 and > Python 3. Read about it herehttp://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0414/ > > In Python 3.3, 'u' should *only* be used for that purpose and should be > ignored by anyone not writing or editing 2&3 code. If you are not > writing such code, ignore it. > > > and I shew, not to say proofed, it may > > > be a source of problems. > > You are the one making it be a problem. > > > Typical Python desease. Introduce a problem, > > then discuss how to solve it, but surely and > > definitivly do not remove that problem. > > The simultaneous reintroduction of 'ur', but with a different meaning > than in 2.7, *was* a problem and it should be removed in the next release. > > > As far as I know, Python 3.2 is working very > > well. > > Except that many public libraries that we would like to see ported to > Python 3 have not been. The purpose of reintroducing 'u' is to encourage > more porting of Python 2 code. Period. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy
It's a matter of perspective. I expected to have finally a clean Python, the goal is missed. I have nothing to object. It is "your" (core devs) project, not mine. At least, you understood my point of view. I'm a more than two decades TeX user. At the release of XeTeX (a pure unicode TeX-engine), the devs had, like Python2/3, to make anything incompatible. A success. It did not happen a week without seeing a updated package or a refreshed documentation. Luckily for me, Xe(La)TeX is more important than Python. As a scientist, Python is perfect. >From an educational point of view, I'm becoming more and more skeptical about this language, a moving target. Note that I'm not complaining, only "desappointed". jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list