Dec. 6, 2006
2:15 p.m.
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 "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
class Foo(object): ... def __unicode__(self): ... print "unicode" ... return u"hi" ... def __str__(self): ... print "str" ... return "hello" ... unicode(Foo()) unicode u'hi'
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