Given that the IronPython str always supports Unicode, if you got your wish I 
don't think you'd ever see "str" again.  Either that, or there would have to be 
two types when that's not needed for any extra functionality.

At 12:23 PM 12/1/2006, Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote
>Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote:
>> 
>>> Is this the correct behavior?
>> 
>> yes.  a Python implementation is not required to have a distinct Unicode
>> string type; see:
>> 
>>     http://jython.sourceforge.net/docs/differences.html
>> 
>> </F>
>
>OK. Thanks for the heads up.
>Mind you I find that a bit confusing and I'd rather have the type to
>display unicode rather than str in that case. But fair enough.
>
>- Sylvain


J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp


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