On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 09:11:50AM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I don't believe there is a way to make > string literals unicode, you just have to get used to writing u"" and > b"" strings by hand. Sorry, that is unclear. I meant to say, there is no way to force unprefixed strings "" to be Unicode in 2.x. -- Steven