portable unicode literals

Alex Strickland sscc at mweb.co.za
Mon Oct 15 09:41:40 EDT 2012


On 2012/10/15 03:05 PM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:

> This actually came as a surprise to me, I assumed that using b'' I could
> portably create a byte string (which is true) and using u'' I could
> portably create a unicode string (which is not true). This feature would
> help porting code between both versions. While this is a state I can
> live with, I wonder what the rationale for this is.
>
> !puzzled thanks

u'' is legal in 3.3 again.

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Regards
Alex



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