[Python-Dev] readd u'' literal support in 3.3?

[Michael Foord]

On 13/12/2011 13:33, Laurence Rowe wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:18:40 +0100, Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 09:50 -0500, PJ Eby wrote:
>>
>>
>>>         As someone who ported WebOb and other stuff built on top of it
>>>         to Python
>>>         3 without using "from __future__ import unicode_literals", I'm
>>>         kinda sad
>>>         that to be using best practice I'll have to go back and flip
>>>         the
>>>         polarity on everything.
>>>
>>>
>>> Eh?  If you don't need unicode_literals, what's the problem?
>>
>> Porting the WebOb code sucked.  It's only about 5K lines of code but the
>> porting effort took me about 80 hours.  Some of the problem is certainly
>> my own idiocy, but some of it is just because straddling code across
>> Python 2 and Python 3 currently requires that you change lots and lots
>> of code for suspect benefit.
>
> Could this manual work be cut down if there was a version of 2to3 that 
> targeted the subset of the language that is compatible with both 2 and 
> 3? That would seem to avoid most of the drawbacks to the current 2to3 
> approach.
>
I'm not sure what you mean, but it *reads* as if you mean "a version of 
2to3 that only converts code that doesn't need converting". Could you 
clarify?

Thanks,

Michael

> Laurence
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