[Python-Dev] Minidom and Unicode

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> paul wrote:
> 
> > If we want to use a hard-coded lossless encoding, we should do so in
> > repr. Rather than having us fix a dozen modules with problems like this,
> > we should fix repr once and for all.
> 
> how about allowing str and repr to actually return
> unicode strings?
> 
> or in other words:
> 
>         PyObject *res;
>         res = (*v->ob_type->tp_repr)(v);
>         if (res == NULL)
>             return NULL;
>         if (!PyString_Check(res) && !PyUnicode_Check(res)) {
>             PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
>                      "__repr__ returned non-string (type %.200s)",
>                      res->ob_type->tp_name);
>             Py_DECREF(res);
>             return NULL;
>         }
>         return res;
> 
> (strings are strings are strings, etc)

-1: This breaks code, since it is expected that PyObject_Str()
returns a string object.

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