[Python-Dev] unicode inconsistency?

[Tim Peters]

[Batista, Facundo]
> You mean something like %u? (actually don't know if the "u" is used for
> something else)

'%u' is used for unsigned int formats -- although int/long unification
rendered those senseless.

> If %u triggers PyObject_Unicode(), the following will work?
> 
>    class A:
>        def __unicode__(self):
>            return u'\u1234'
> 
>    '%u' % u'\u1234'
>    '%u' % A()

That's the intent, yes.  Neil's original example would *also* "work"
then (because unlike PyObject_Str(), PyObject_Unicode() is happy to
accept a unicode result as-is from a tp_str implementation).