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Re: portable unicode literals

Date 2012-10-15 15:41 +0200
From Alex Strickland <sscc@mweb.co.za>
Subject Re: portable unicode literals
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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.

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Regards
Alex

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portable unicode literals Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-10-15 15:05 +0200
  Re: portable unicode literals Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-15 13:26 +0000
  Re: portable unicode literals Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-10-15 09:32 -0400
  Re: portable unicode literals Alex Strickland <sscc@mweb.co.za> - 2012-10-15 15:41 +0200
    Re: portable unicode literals Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-16 08:44 +0000
  Re: portable unicode literals Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2012-10-15 20:11 +0300

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