[Python-Dev] readd u'' literal support in 3.3?

[Chris McDonough]

On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 01:02 -0500, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 2011/12/8 Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com>:
> > On the heels of Armin's blog post about the troubles of making the same
> > codebase run on both Python 2 and Python 3, I have a concrete
> > suggestion.
> >
> > It would help a lot for code that straddles both Py2 and Py3 to be able
> > to make use of u'' literals.
> 
> Helpful or not helpful, I think that ship has sailed. The earliest it
> could see the light of day is 3.3, which would leave people trying to
> support 3.1 and 3.2 in a bind.

Right.. the title does say "readd ... support in 3.3".  Are you
suggesting "the ship has sailed" for eternity because it can't be
supported in Python < 3.3?

- C