Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment:

Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> 
> New submission from Barry A. Warsaw <ba...@python.org>:
> 
> Python 2.x supports a -U flag which has the effect largely the same as 'from 
> __future__ import unicode_literals'.  However -U is undocumented anywhere 
> except import.c.  We should either remove -U support from Python 2.7 or 
> document it (and indicate in that documentation that the future import is 
> preferred).

+1 on removing it.

It has been deliberately been undocumented since Python 2.2
in order to be able to phase out its use and finally remove it.

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nosy: +lemburg

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