Armin Rigo <ar...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: A __repr__() that returns unicode can, in CPython 2.7 be used in "%s" % x or in u"%s" % x --- both expressions then return a unicode without doing any encoding --- but it cannot be used anywhere else, e.g. in "%r" % x or in repr(x). See also the PyPy issue https://bugs.pypy.org/issue857 .
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