[ python-Bugs-1696390 ] Strange performance with unicode and lists

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Bugs item #1696390, was opened at 2007-04-08 11:44
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Category: Unicode
Group: Python 2.5
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Vsevolod (sv75)
Assigned to: M.-A. Lemburg (lemburg)
Summary: Strange performance with unicode and lists

Initial Comment:
I found some strange error (?) when using list of unicodes. Here is a small sample:

# Alex in Russian
l = [u'\u0410\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441'] 
# print method 1
for s in l:
    print s.encode("utf-8")
# print method 2
print [s.encode("utf-8") for s in l]

Output is:
Алекс     
['\xd0\x90\xd0\xbb\xd0\xb5\xd0\xba\xd1\x81']

I suppose than output of both methods should be equal. Or maybe I'm wrong? 

Python versions: 2.4.4, 2.5 (both version)
OS: Ubuntu 6.10, Debian Etch

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>Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2007-04-08 12:34

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No, the output is correct. The __str__() of a list does a __repr__() of
its contents,
to avoid confusion e.g. in this situation:

>>> l = ["a, b, c", "d, e, f"]

If list.__str__ did __str__ on its items, it would look like this:

>>> print l
[a, b, c, d, e, f]

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