Python 3 compatibility. New strategy for unicode support from Python 2.6 to 3.3:

PierreRaybaut · PierreRaybaut · commit e94a701115f4 · 2013-05-21T14:35:18.000+02:00
removed all references to `py3compat.u` function (which replaced the u'' and u""
unicode strings) by `from __future__ import unicode_literals`.

Python 2.6 to 3.3 support for unicode strings now simply relies on the removal
of all `u` string prefixes and the addition of the unicode future statement at
the beginnning of scripts: `from __future__ import unicode_literals`.
diff --git a/winpython/py3compat.py b/winpython/py3compat.py
@@ -77,18 +77,6 @@
 #==============================================================================
 # Strings
 #==============================================================================
-if PY2:
-    # Python 2
-    import codecs
-    def u(obj):
-        """Make unicode object"""
-        return codecs.unicode_escape_decode(obj)[0]
-else:
-    # Python 3
-    def u(obj):
-        """Return string as it is"""
-        return obj
-
 def is_text_string(obj):
     """Return True if `obj` is a text string, False if it is anything else,
     like binary data (Python 3) or QString (Python 2, PyQt API #1)"""
