On 2008-12-10, ajaksu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 9, 5:24 pm, Bill McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On 2008-12-09, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > In Python 2.x unmarked string literals are bytestrings. In Python 3.x > > > they're Unicode. The intention is to make the transition from 2.x to 3.x > > > easier by adding some features of 3.x to 2.x, but without breaking > > > backwards compatibility (not entirely successfully!). > > > > It is a bit ugly. In 2.6 StringIO won't take bytestrings, so I apply u'x'. > > But > > in 3.0 u'x' will be gone and I'll have to change the code again.
> Try: > from __future__ import unicode_literals That works for: output.write('First line.\n') ...but not for: print('Second line.', file=output) Maybe a combination of this and functools.partial as was suggested before. At least the necessary edits would be at the top of the program. -Bill -- Sattre Press Tales of War http://sattre-press.com/ by Lord Dunsany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sattre-press.com/tow.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list