thomas wouters fgxflgpythonorg thu mar 20 2008 928 lennart regebro wrote thu mar 20 2008 440 pm charles merriam wrote problem gratuitous removal leading u subtle problems code looks nearly identical likely one cause problems new semantics keys operations havent read 30 code stated guidos last talk problem lack u support ive tried may case particular code still fragile count true python 30 must backward compatibility cruft defeats whole point 30 devalues point uselessness plain silly discuss done adding future statement 26 make identical u __future__ import unicode_strings doesnt remove need use 2to3 really use 2to3 new semantics keys operation means keys work like iterkeys works problem unless try use result keys list isnt commonly done types problems however completely unavoidable case 2to3 wont solve either understand itll much better job tryandpray may matter code really suggest relying use 2to3 thomas wouters hi im signature virus copy signature file help spread wed 06 aug 2008 094556 0700 python3000 utext alias text