ansible_mitogen: Some modules use from __future__ import unicode_literals

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On Python 3 this has no effect. On Python 2 it is probably causing some subtle bugs. Particularly if there's a mix of Python 2 and Python 3 on controller and targets.

$ ag unicode_literal mitogen/ ansible_mitogen tests -l | sort
ansible_mitogen/_trace.py
ansible_mitogen/connection.py
ansible_mitogen/module_finder.py
ansible_mitogen/parsing.py
ansible_mitogen/planner.py
ansible_mitogen/plugins/action/mitogen_get_stack.py
ansible_mitogen/services.py
ansible_mitogen/transport_config.py
tests/ansible/lib/callback/nice_stdout.py
tests/data/importer/webproject/webapp/apps.py
tests/data/importer/webproject/webapp/models.py

[moreati]

To avoid confusion, we recommend using unicode_literals everywhere across a code-base or not at all, instead of turning on for only some modules.

-- https://python-future.org/unicode_literals.html

[moreati]

builtin:

myenum = type('Enum', (), enum)

(slightly esotic) doesn't work with unicode_literals: type() expects a string.

-- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/809796/any-gotchas-using-unicode-literals-in-python-2-6

[moreati]

I am beginning to think that from __future__ import unicode_literals does more harm than good. I don't recall exactly why we introduced it, but with the restoration of u"" literals in Python 3.3 we have a much better story for writing straddling code that is unicode-correct.
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I wonder if we can add an official note to the 2.7 docs recommending against it?
-- GvR, https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-December/147009.html