[Python-Dev] unicode inconsistency?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> No, it would not "work" the way I want.  I don't want to force
>> things to unicode strings unless necessary.
> 
> 
> Unicode always causes coercion towards Unicode, just like floats
> always cause coercion towards floats. Nothing's going to
> change at that end.

Not always. As we are discussing right now, str() (and indirectly
%s) coerce Unicode objects into string objects. Also,
PyArg_ParseTuple coerces Unicode into byte strings for the "s"
and "t" formats.

Regards,
Martin