On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:42 AM, <random...@fastmail.us> wrote: >> and it means you can't safely >> blindly use %s with an unknown object. > > You can't safely do this anyway. Whether it's %s with a str and a > unicode, or %s with a unicode and a str, *something* is going to have > to be implicitly encoded or decoded, and if ascii doesn't happen to be > the correct encoding then the result will be either an error or a > silent failure.
Also note that if you use %r instead of %s, you'll get the result you want (although the unicode string will be quoted rather than encoded). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
