2011/1/1 Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> > Terry Reedy, 01.01.2011 11:08: > > On 1/1/2011 4:08 AM, Baptiste Lepilleur wrote: >> >> Is there a way to mark string literals so that 2to3 automatically >>> prefixes them with 'b'? Is there a simpler trick? >>> >> >> Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Nov 27 2010, 18:30:46) [MSC v.1500 32 bit >> (Intel)] on win32 >> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >> >>> b=b'abc' >> >>> b >> 'abc' >> >> The b prefix does nothing in 2.7. It was specifically added for this type >> of porting problem. >> > > More precisely, it was added in Python 2.6, so older Python versions will > consider it a syntax error. > > To support older Python versions, you need to write your own wrapper > functions for bytes literals that do nothing in Python 2 and convert the > literal back to a bytes literal in Python 3. That's ugly, but there's no > other way to do it. >
Thanks, I'll go that way. I guess it is an area where 3to2 would be better...
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