Version upgrade blocked mentally

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:40:00 -0800, Scott David Daniels <scott.daniels at acm.org> wrote:
>Adam E wrote:
>>I have read in my copy of Programming Python that all strings will be
>>Unicode and there will be a byte type.
>Actually that change is scheduled for 3.0.

Yes, but it's available in 2.6 as well:

    Python 2.6+ (trunk:66997, Oct 23 2008, 16:02:09) 
    [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> type('')
    <type 'str'>
    >>> type(u'')
    <type 'unicode'>
    >>> type(b'')
    <type 'str'>
    >>> from __future__ import unicode_literals
    >>> type('')
    <type 'unicode'>
    >>> type(u'')
    <type 'unicode'>
    >>> type(b'')
    <type 'str'>
    >>> 

Jean-Paul