On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:11:51PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
'%s' is documented as "String (converts any python object using str())". It's str(A()) that raises the exception you're seeing, not interpolation.
Shouldn't '%s' % u'\u1234' also raise an exception then?
To worm around that, you'll effectively have to duplicate PyObject_Str's implementation
Yes. I want something like "PyObject_UnicodeOrStr" that would return either a unicode object or a str object. That would make it easier to write code that produces 'str' results if unicode characters don't appear in any of the inputs. Having __str__ methods that can return either 'unicode' or 'str' objects is also very handy (I don't see how you can say that it doesn't make any sense). Perhaps I am on the wrong track. However, if I understand the /F bot correctly, he favours a design that does not force everthing to unicode strings. Neil