[Python-Dev] unicode and __str__

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Mon Aug 30 23:36:18 CEST 2004


    Neil> Shouldn't we be heading to a world where __str__ always returns
    Neil> unicode objects?

Which reminds me...  Didn't someone (MAL?) add an experimental configure
flag or something similar to allow building Python with PyString* ==
PyUnicode* (or something like that)?  I think the idea was to see what needs
to be fixed before Python can become 100% Unicode.  Last I recall it was
lots.

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