-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 6, 2006, at 7:07 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> On 2006-12-06 10:26, Fredrik Lundh wrote: >>> From what I can tell, __str__ may return a Unicode object, but >>> only if can be converted to an 8-bit string using the default >>> encoding. Is this >>> on purpose or by accident? Do we have a plan for improving the >>> situation >>> in future 2.X releases ? > > It has worked that way since at Python least 2.4 (I just tried > returning > unicode from __str__ in 2.4.1 and it worked fine). That's the > oldest version I > have handy, so I don't know if it was possible in earlier versions. I don't have anything older than 2.4 laying around either, but IIRC in 2.3 unicode() did not call __unicode__(). - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRXbBIHEjvBPtnXfVAQJC6AQAhPDrd451PYhQHTuFZqFX7oJpuadEONxb UaBEpWs6yzJjLAxC2tfRVT8vOc1bTmF3Wzf1y5HZsXcbklOFm3USl0YJ8206oDBN 2MGGf2e/JuC5oajo5RJqQ/oqaLDSHb8cD6GP2y/+FFaAhwDnlgnOlV0TxAggKv4K a9nCnFRwJ8c= =+mj8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
