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[Python-Dev] PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3

[Python-Dev] PEP 414 - Unicode Literals for Python 3R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Tue Feb 28 14:41:13 CET 2012
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:21:11 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > If the 2.x code depends on having u'xxx' literals, then 3.2 testing will
> > potentially involve running a fixer on all files in the project every time a
> > change is made, writing to a separate directory, or else a fixer which is
> > integrated into the editing environment so it knows what changed. This is
> > painful, and what motivated PEP 314 in the first place - which seems ironic.
> 
> No, the real idea behind PEP 414 is that most ports that rely on it
> simply won't support 3.2 - they will only target 3.3+.

Hmm.  It seems to me that this argument implies that PEP 414 is just
as likely to *slow down* adoption of Python3 as it is to speed it up,
since if this issue is as big a barrier as indicated, many potential
porters may choose to wait until OS vendors are supporting 3.3 widely
before starting their ports.  We are clearly expecting that the reality
is that the impact will be at worse neutral, and hopefully positive.

--David
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