[Python-Dev] String formatting / unicode 2.5 bug?

Is this a bug? # run with 2.4 and then with 2.5 (I'm running release25-maint:51410) class a(object): def __getattribute__(self, name): print "accessing %r.%s" % (self, name) return object.__getattribute__(self, name) def __str__(self): print "__str__" return u'hi' print repr(str(a())) print print repr("%s" % a()) John