Python 3 lacks explicit Unicode strings using the u'' notation This at least is factually wrong; Python 3.3 made the 'u' prefix legal syntax again. On Python 3

Python 3 lacks explicit Unicode strings using the u'' notation This at least is factually wrong; Python 3.3 made the 'u' prefix legal syntax again. On Python 3 it's effectively a no-op, since an un-prefixed string literal would be a Unicode string anyway on Python 3.