On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 05:23:56PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > from __future__ import unicode_strings > Didn't we have a command-line option to do this? I believe it was > removed because nobody could see the point. (Or am I hallucinating? > After several days of non-stop discussing bytes that must be > considered a possibility.) We do, and it's not been removed: the -U switch. Python 2.3.5 (#2, Nov 21 2005, 01:27:27) >>> "" u'' Python 2.4.2 (#2, Nov 21 2005, 02:24:28) >>> "" u'' Python 2.5a0 (trunk:42390, Feb 16 2006, 00:12:03) >>> "" u'' I've never seen it *used*, though, and IIRC there were quite a number of stdlib modules that broke when you used it, at least back when it was introduced. -- Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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