[Python-Dev] Utopian String Interpolation

[Guido van Rossum]

> How about an optional warning which, after a year or so, would be turned
> on by default, and then a year or so after that would be an error? 
> 
> This same issue may effect some eventual merging of literal strings and
> Unicode literals because \N, \u etc. are treated differently in strings
> than in Unicode literals. And even if literal strings and Unicode
> strings are never merged, \N could be useful in ordinary strings.

-1

I don't find this enough of a problem to invoke the heavy gun of a
language change.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)