Making all string literals Unicode

[Richie Hindle]

[Richie]
> is there a switch or an environment variable to
> make Python treat all string literals as unicode?

[Thomas]
> python -U

Ah!  Thanks.

(I see it's deliberately omitted from the documentation because pieces
of the standard library don't work with it, which is quite reasonable
and explains why I couldn't find it.)

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