[Python-Dev] test_support.have_unicode

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Mar 18 16:55:08 CET 2008


On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:25 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > About two months ago I fixed the most critical bugs but the unicode free
>  > build is treated like a poor cousin at best. It's neither actively
>  > developed nor tested in regular intervals. IMO it's a deprecation candiate.
>
>  In the sense that 3k won't support it anymore - certainly.
>
>  In the sense that it will be removed in 2.7: Why?
>
>  I'd rather say it's unmaintained, not deprecated.

Right. It's a Py3k warning candidate.

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