diff --git a/docs/ref/utils.txt b/docs/ref/utils.txt index 87c9f43baa..4599331093 100644 --- a/docs/ref/utils.txt +++ b/docs/ref/utils.txt @@ -1027,10 +1027,6 @@ appropriate entities. For a complete discussion on the usage of the following see the :doc:`translation documentation `. -The ``u`` prefix on the functions below comes from a difference in Python 2 -between unicode and bytestrings. If your code doesn't support Python 2, use the -functions without the ``u``. - .. function:: gettext(message) Translates ``message`` and returns it as a string. diff --git a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt index 7124871116..354ef95a69 100644 --- a/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt +++ b/docs/topics/i18n/translation.txt @@ -52,12 +52,6 @@ Specify a translation string by using the function :func:`~django.utils.translation.gettext`. It's convention to import this as a shorter alias, ``_``, to save typing. -.. note:: - The ``u`` prefixing of ``gettext`` functions was originally to distinguish - usage between unicode strings and bytestrings on Python 2. For code that - supports only Python 3, they can be used interchangeably. A deprecation for - the prefixed functions may happen in a future Django release. - .. note:: Python's standard library ``gettext`` module installs ``_()`` into the global namespace, as an alias for ``gettext()``. In Django, we have chosen