Add support for unicode (with python 2)?

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[jlstevens]

This is fairly important and quite an annoyance. I promise our HoloViews users that it will be fixed in the next release. See the last entry of the HoloViews FAQ: holoviz/holoviews@d2dec608e

I'm sure we will have enough improvements by then to justify an updated release of param. :-)

[vascotenner]

I normally do something like:

from __future__ import unicode_literals
import numpy as np
import holoviews as hv

But then params does not work anymore.

Related: holoviz/holoviews#29

[jlstevens]

I agree this is an important issue. Will we have a new param bug-fix release before param 2.0 where we can have this fixed?

[jbednar]

Let's discuss param releasing around 14 April; I'm waiting to hear some things about param from Chris.

[ablythed]

Closing. Works in Python 3 and Python 2 is no longer a priority.