[Python-Dev] Unicode as argument for 8-bit format strings

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 07 Apr 2000 13:57:41 +0200


There has been a bug report about the treatment of Unicode
objects together with 8-bit format strings. The current
implementation converts the Unicode object to UTF-8 and then
inserts this value in place of the %s.... 

I'm inclined to change this to have '...%s...' % u'abc'
return u'...abc...' since this is just another case of
coercing data to the "bigger" type to avoid information loss.

Thoughts ?

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