[Python-Dev] PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3

[Ethan Furman]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>> Eh?  The 2.6 version would also be u('that').  That's the whole point
>>> of the idiom.  You'll need a better counter argument than that.
>> So the idea is to convert the existing 2.6 code to use parenthesis as
>> well? (I obviously haven't read the PEP -- my apologies.)
> 
> Well, if you didn't, you wouldn't have the same sources on 2.x and 3.x.
> And if that was ok, you wouldn't need the u() function in 3.x at all,
> since plain string literals are *already* unicode strings there.

True -- but I would rather have u'' in 2.6 and 3.3 than u('') in 2.6 and 
3.3.

~Ethan~