[IronPython] Django, __unicode__, and #20366

[Michael Foord]

On 15/02/2010 23:51, Jeff Hardy wrote:
> 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.
>
>    

Yeah - u'%s' % foo is basically equivalent to u'%s' % unicode(foo) anyway...

Michael

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