portable unicode literals

[Duncan Booth]

Alex Strickland <sscc at mweb.co.za> wrote:

> 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.
> 
and if you want it to work in 3.1 and 3.2 there is the uprefix import hook: 
https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/uprefix


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