[Python-Dev] Minidom and Unicode

[Fredrik Lundh]

martin wrote:
> In what way?
>=20
> Python 2.0b1 (#1, Jul  3 2000, 09:12:07)  [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 =
(release)] on linux2
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> Copyright 1995-2000 Corporation for National Research Initiatives =
(CNRI)
> >>> class X:
> ...   def __repr__(self):
> ...     if hasattr(self,"u"):
> ...       return u'\u30b9'
> ...     else:
> ...       return u'hallo'
> ...=20
> >>> x=3DX()
> >>> x
> hallo
> >>> x.u=3D1
> >>> x
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: __repr__ returned non-string (type unicode)
>=20
> > no need to change minidom.
>=20
> The need still appears to exist, both for minidom.Element (KATAKANA
> LETTER SU is a letter, and thus a valid tag name), as well as
> minidom.Text. A string is a string is a string.

works for me:

$ export LANG=3Dposix.utf8
$ python
>>> import sys
>>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
'utf8'
>>> class X:
...    def __repr__(self):
...        return u"u\30b9"
...
>>> x =3D X()
>>> x
=E3,=B9

(or to put it another way, I'm not sure the repr/str fix is
the real culprit here...)

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