Marc-Andre Lemburg:

gvanrossum · gvanrossum · commit fdc8bdb67b7a · 2000-05-01T17:54:56.000Z
Support for the new -U command line option option:
with the option enabled the Python compiler
interprets all "..." strings as u"..." (same with r"..." and
ur"...").
diff --git a/Python/compile.c b/Python/compile.c
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ parsestr(s)
 			return NULL;
 		}
 	}
-	if (unicode) {
+	if (unicode || Py_UnicodeFlag) {
 		if (rawmode)
 			return PyUnicode_DecodeRawUnicodeEscape(
 				s, len, NULL);

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ parsestr(s)`
`920`	`920`	`return NULL;`
`921`	`921`	`}`
`922`	`922`	`}`
`923`		`- if (unicode) {`
	`923`	`+ if (unicode \|\| Py_UnicodeFlag) {`
`924`	`924`	`if (rawmode)`
`925`	`925`	`return PyUnicode_DecodeRawUnicodeEscape(`
`926`	`926`	`s, len, NULL);`