[I18n-sig] Unicode experience

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Toby Dickenson wrote:
> 
> I'm just nearing the end of getting Zope to play well with unicode
> data. Most of the changes involved replacing a call to str, in
> situations where either a unicode or narrow string would be
> acceptable.
> 
> My best alternative is:
> 
> def convert_to_something_stringlike(x):
>     if type(x)==type(u''):
>         return x
>     else:
>         return str(x)
> 
> This seems like a fundamental operation - would it be worth having
> something similar in the standard library?

You mean: for Unicode return Unicode and for everything else
return strings ?

It doesn't fit well with the builtins str() and unicode(). I'd
say, make this a userland helper.

BTW, could you elaborate a bit on your experience with adding
Unicode support to Zope ? Such a report would certainly make
a nice complement to the Unicode tutorial and help other
people adding Unicode support to their apps.

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