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On Dec 6, 2006, at 9:15 AM, Michael Urman wrote:
>> I don't have anything older than 2.4 laying around either, but IIRC
>> in 2.3 unicode() did not call __unicode__().
>
> It turns out __unicode__() is called on Python 2.3.5.
Ah cool, thanks. I must
> I don't have anything older than 2.4 laying around either, but IIRC
> in 2.3 unicode() did not call __unicode__().
It turns out __unicode__() is called on Python 2.3.5.
% python2.3
Python 2.3.5 (#2, Oct 18 2006, 23:04:45)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061015 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-16.1)] on linux2
Type "hel
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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
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
>>
On 2006-12-06 10:56, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
>> This was added to make the transition to all Unicode in 3k easier:
>
> thanks for the clarification.
>
> do you recall when this was added? 2.5?
Not really, only that it was definitely before 2.5.
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M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> This was added to make the transition to all Unicode in 3k easier:
thanks for the clarification.
do you recall when this was added? 2.5?
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On 2006-12-06 10:46, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> On 2006-12-06 10:26, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> over at my work copy of the python language reference, Adrian Holovaty
>> asked about the exact semantics of the __str__ hook:
>>
>> http://effbot.org/pyref/__str__
>>
>>"The return value must be a stri
On 2006-12-06 10:26, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> over at my work copy of the python language reference, Adrian Holovaty
> asked about the exact semantics of the __str__ hook:
>
> http://effbot.org/pyref/__str__
>
>"The return value must be a string object." Does this mean it can be a
>*Uni
