[Python-3000] Need help fixing failing Py3k Unittests in py3k-struni

[Guido van Rossum]

Fixed in subversion. Please do review r56252 to see that I did the right thing.

On 7/11/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Yeah, I'm looking in to this right now. What a mess! But I'm close to a fix.
>
> There's more that causes test_descr to fail however. Bleh, what a
> terrible unit test -- it doesn't use the unittest module, and a single
> failure aborts the rest of the test.
>
> --Guido
>
> On 7/11/07, Walter Dörwald <walter at livinglogic.de> wrote:
> > Christian Heimes wrote:
> >
> > > I found a bug in the str type that may affect a lot of tests.
> > >
> > > In the py3k-struni branch the str() constructor doesn't use __str__ when
> > > the argument is an instance of a subclass of str. A user defined string
> > > can't change __str__(). The __repr__ method isn't affected.
> >
> > This hasn't been rewired yet. Behind the covers str still behaves like
> > unicode, i.e. it uses __unicode__ for conversion.
> >
> > Servus,
> >     Walter
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