Unicode literals that work in python 3 and 2

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So I have a python script that I'd prefer worked on python 3.2 and 2.7 just for convenience.

Is there a way to have unicode literals that work in both? E.g.

#coding: utf-8
whatever = 'שלום'

The above code would require a unicode string in python 2.x (u'') and in python 3.x that little u causes a syntax error.

unicode-literals python-2.x unicode python-3.x python
2 Answers

In 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2:

from __future__ import unicode_literals

Source: ubershmekel, in the question. See revision 4 for the original.

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