str vs unicode

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> So then the question is, should we perhaps instead move to using
> __unicode__ on objects for the latter, for the sake of being a bit
> safer with unicode values, and perhaps also for an easier transition
> to python3?

Doesn't python3 delete __unicode__ ? In the spirit of having no
compatiblity concerns, after all :)

-Rob