On Dec 08, 2011, at 06:53 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >Are you saying that with that future import, b"..." is still a Unicode >literal?
No, the future import has no impact on b-strings. -----snip snip----- from __future__ import print_function import sys print(sys.version_info.major, sys.version_info.minor, type(b'')) -----snip snip----- $ python /tmp/foo.py 2 7 <type 'str'> $ python3 /tmp/foo.py 3 2 <class 'bytes'> -----snip snip----- from __future__ import print_function, unicode_literals import sys print(sys.version_info.major, sys.version_info.minor, type(b'')) -----snip snip----- $ python /tmp/foo.py 2 7 <type 'str'> $ python3 /tmp/foo.py 3 2 <class 'bytes'> Cheers, -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
