From: Robin Stocker <robin@...>
Date: 2007-08-31T22:24:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Encodings of string literals; explicit codepoint escapes?

Martin Duerst schrieb:
> Python really needs the u"..." because a string can't be Unicode
> (in their case UTF-16 or UTF-32) and ASCII-compatible at the same
> time.

Note that in Python 3, the u"" notation will be gone and all strings
will be unicode strings by default [1]. If what you want is a string of
bytes, this is what the new bytes type is for. I like this approach and
think this will help get rid of the confusion of having the same type
for character strings and byte strings.

[1] http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=157004

  Robin