Hi all, If an entire application operates on Unicode strings from UI to database, is there a use case for str() and unicode() functions? The application should be able to read/write files, open sockets and execute external processes and parse their output. From my own experiments, the open() command for files accepts unicode strings. I am just wondering if there is a place where str() would have to be used, other than the usual use case of converting a non-string python construct (such as an integer) into a string.
The reason I am asking is, I work on a project with several other developers and our NLS testing is not going so well. Major reason is (I think) that there is a lot of str() functions interspersed everywhere. So whenever a unicode character is used in those variables, the application breaks. My recommendation to the team was to remove these functions and only leave the necessary ones. However, I do not have a generic answer on when a str() function is necessary. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
