Message 81952 - Python tracker

> If we add re.UNICODE on Py2, strptime should work fine with unicode
> strings, but it could fail somehow with normal strings. Is it more
> important to provide a way to use Unicode chars that works only with
> unicode strings or to have a coherent behavior between str and unicode?

I'd say the latter, since str and unicode are often interchangeable in
2.x.