I am converting a legacy codebase to python3 and do some dry runs of 2to3. 2to3 removes the u'' prefix from unicode literals creating a lot of noise in the diffs. Is there a way to disable this (as u'my string' is valid py3 syntax)?
Python 2to3 - do not remove unicode prefixes
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From the help:
2to3 --help
...
-x NOFIX, --nofix=NOFIX
Prevent a transformation from being run
-l, --list-fixes List available transformations
...
With --list-fixes, we find the transformation to ignore, unicode.
Result: 2to3 --nofix=unicode.
According to https://docs.python.org/2/library/2to3.html, you can exclude certain set of fixers by -x option.
Perhaps the following would do what you want.
2to3 -x unicode example.py
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