[Python-Dev] Deprecate `from __future__ import unicode_literals`?

[Matěj Cepl]

On 2016-12-16, 19:24 GMT, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I am beginning to think that `from __future__ import unicode_literals` does
> more harm than good. I don't recall exactly why we introduced it, but with
> the restoration of u"" literals in Python 3.3 we have a much better story
> for writing straddling code that is unicode-correct.

???

There has been absolute fanaticism about not changing anything 
in Python 2.* because of supposed stability of API, even in 
situations when I don’t think API was really in danger 
(http://bugs.python.org/issue19494).  And now you would remove 
a feature which zillions of lines of code depend on, or at least 
could depend on?

And yes, I do use it in my current porting efforts of M2Crypto 
to be py2/3k compatible.

I don’t understand.

Matěj

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