u"" was reintroduced to avoid people of fixing all their strings (see PEP 414 rationale). that was my point, by moving to python 3, I removed all my "u", the t

u"" was reintroduced to avoid people of fixing all their strings (see PEP 414 rationale). that was my point, by moving to python 3, I removed all my "u", the thing other developers not wanted (see PEP-414 again); I loved the "purity". but removing u was tedious (at best). In my use case, strings are "string" and binary are "bytes". Which I think is much safer.