[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 292 - Simpler String Substitutions

[Aahz]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 12:32, Tim Peters wrote:
>> 
>> Apologies to Barry, but I'm +1 on auto-str() too.  It's a string
>> interpolation -- the user is explicitly asking for a string.  If they
>> made a mistake, it was in asking for a string to begin with, not in
>> feeding it a non-string.
> 
> Should it be auto-unicode(), given that Template is derived from
> unicode?  And if so, should we entertain the possibility of insanities
> like giving the user the ability to pass optional arguments to the
> unicode() call?  If the answers to that are yes and no, that's fine with
> me.

Here you go: yes and no
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