Sounds good, Dino. Thanks. - Jeff
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Dino Viehland <di...@microsoft.com> wrote: > It definitely won't be in 2.6RC1 but could be in 2.6 final (or RC2 or > whatever). > > I'm still looking into Michael's proposed fix of recognizing calls to unicode > - > it's a little tricky dealing with * and **args calls to it and I got > distracted > by preparing for PyCon. > > Hopefully I can finish that up in the next couple of days and see how that > works vs. just calling __unicode__ when __str__ gets called. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users- >> boun...@lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Hardy >> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:21 AM >> To: Discussion of IronPython >> Subject: Re: [IronPython] Django, __unicode__, and #20366 >> >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Dino Viehland <di...@microsoft.com> wrote: >> > Messing with identity starts to get really scary and I'd rather not go >> > there - I'm sure there will be lots of edge cases which will be broken. >> > >> > 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. >> >> Hi Dino, >> It looks like this is a major impediment to running Django; the >> majority of the test suite failures are because IronPython calls >> __str__ instead of __unicode__. Any chance this could be fixed for >> 2.6.1? I know it's a big change, but IMHO it's pretty critical as >> well. >> >> - Jeff >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users@lists.ironpython.com >> http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.ironpython.com > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
