On 01/02/2010 23:58, Jeff Hardy wrote:
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Dino Viehland<di...@microsoft.com> wrote:
I could see is making unicode(foo) do something different. If you aliased
unicode then you'd get str's behavior though but that might be perfectly
acceptable. It's definitely a solution I had not considered and it'd
probably fix multiple issues.
Presumably then str and unicode would no longer be equal? Or are you
thinking of something fancier?
They would still be the same object - so would continue to compare equal
and have the same identity. What I'm suggesting is similar to how Python
3 treats the use of super - and that is compile different code when you
call str(...) from when you call unicode(....) - only when you use those
literal identifiers in source code.
Any use of them other than calling them directly would continue to
behave as IronPython does currently.
Also, in what cases would anyone *want* to alias unicode?
Well, like aliasing super in Python 3, with my suggestion that would
then be broken (or at least would fall back to standard str behaviour).
As this is uncommon anyway it shouldn't break *much* code.
All the best,
Michael
- Jeff
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