StringIO in 2.6 and beyond

[ajaksu]

On Dec 9, 5:24 pm, Bill McClain <20080915.20.wmccl... at spamgourmet.com>
wrote:
> On 2008-12-09, MRAB <goo... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>
> > In Python 2.x unmarked string literals are bytestrings. In Python 3.x
> > they're Unicode. The intention is to make the transition from 2.x to 3.x
> > easier by adding some features of 3.x to 2.x, but without breaking
> > backwards compatibility (not entirely successfully!).
>
> It is a bit ugly. In 2.6 StringIO won't take bytestrings, so I apply u'x'. But
> in 3.0 u'x' will be gone and I'll have to change the code again.

Try:

from __future__ import unicode_literals