Message 65090 - Python tracker
In 3.0, r'\u1234' is a string of 6 characters (\, u, 1, 2, 3, 4). In 2.6, after "from __future__ import unicode_literals" it is a string of one character (code point 0x1234). IMO the 3.0 behavior should be imported from the future as well (using the same import).