Merge pull request #2625 from cython/str_is_str_gh25650.29rc1

Add a new directive 'str_is_str=True'

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Cython/Compiler/Main.py b/Cython/Compiler/Main.py
index 411ef0a8f..1dfc4baf1 100644
--- a/Cython/Compiler/Main.py
+++ b/Cython/Compiler/Main.py
@@ -94,9 +94,18 @@ class Context(object):
 
         if language_level is not None:
             self.set_language_level(language_level)
+        if self.compiler_directives.get('str_is_str') is not None:
+            self.set_str_is_str(self.compiler_directives['str_is_str'])
 
         self.gdb_debug_outputwriter = None
 
+    def set_str_is_str(self, str_is_str):
+        from .Future import unicode_literals
+        if str_is_str:
+            self.future_directives.discard(unicode_literals)
+        else:
+            self.future_directives.add(unicode_literals)
+
     def set_language_level(self, level):
         self.language_level = level
         if level >= 3: