[IronPython] Django, __unicode__, and #20366

Jeff Hardy jdhardy at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 00:51:46 CET 2010


On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Dino Viehland <dinov at microsoft.com> wrote:
> We could make % on a Unicode literal do something special much like
> we're doing for calls to unicode(...).  Alternately we could make %
> try to invoke __unicode__ before __str__ - but that would sometimes
> be wrong.  Probably not very often, it's hard to imagine someone
> defining __unicode__ and expecting __str__ to be returned with
> a significant difference.

Fixing up u"..." literals is probably the lowest impact change,
especially for a point release. You never know what crazy stuff people
might do.

- Jeff



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