[Python-Dev] 2.5 status

[Brett Cannon]

On 9/7/06, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/5/06, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> >
> > > [MAL]
> > > The proper fix would be to introduce a tp_unicode slot and let
> > > this decide what to do, ie. call .__unicode__() methods on instances
> > > and use the .__name__ on classes.
> >
> > That was my bug reaction  and what I said on the bug report.  Kind of
> > surprised one doesn't already exist.
> >
> > > I think this would be the right way to go for Python 2.6. For
> > > Python 2.5, just dropping this .__unicode__ method on exceptions
> > > is probably the right thing to do.
> >
> > Neal, do you want to rip it out or should I?
>
> Is removing __unicode__ backwards compatible with 2.4 for both
> instances and exception classes?


 Should be.  There was no proper __unicode__() originally so that's why this
whole problem came up in the first place.

Does everyone agree this is the proper approach?  I'm not familiar
> with this code.


I am not terribly anymore either since Georg and Richard rewrote the whole
thing.  =)

  Brett, if everyone agrees (ie, remains silent),
> please fix this and add tests and a NEWS entry.


OK.

-Brett
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