UnicodeEncodeError during repr()

[Dave Angel]

gb345 wrote:
> In <hqguja$tt$1 at online.de> "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:
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>>> Do I need to do something especial to get repr to work strictly
>>> with unicode?
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>> Yes, you need to switch to Python 3 :-)
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>>> Or should __repr__ *always* return bytes rather than unicode?
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>> In Python 2.x: yes.
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>>> What about __str__ ?
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>> Likewise.
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>>> If both of these are supposed to return bytes,
>>> then what method should I use to define the unicode representation
>>> for instances of a class?
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>> __unicode__.
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> Thanks!
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 More precisely, __str__() and __repr__() return characters.  Those 
characters are 8 bits on Python 2.x, and Unicode on 3.x.   If you need 
unicode on 2.x, use __unicode__().

DaveA