On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Martin Panter <vadmium+patch@gmail.com> wrote:
1. If you put the “u” prefix on the Chinese string,
Yes, but then it would be treated exactly the same as the 3rd entry. The point of the one that says "error" (so I'm told, I can't read CJK) is to show that in 2.7 even string literals with non-ascii chars behave differently from instances of the unicode class.
2. Put the following __future__ line right at the top of the file,
That ... is ... awesome! I swear I tried that out on an early version of my little script and for some reason didn't see the effect and abandoned it. I even read through the PEP and a few of the top google hits, but I misunderstood it to mean that the effect was limited to the "u" and "b" prefixed strings. Hindsight being 20/20 I can't remember how I could possibly have come to that conclusion. Thank you for sending me back to try it again. I'll try this fix out in the full pactest and get a new patch ready. Probably not tonight, but soon. I'll just resubmit this one patch - the final (8/8) patch could probably benefit from a bit more time for reflection. Thanks, Martin, and enjoy your internet vacation! Jeremy