[XML-SIG] Re: [Python-Dev] Minidom and Unicode

[Paul Prescod]

"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
> 
> Note that __repr__ has to return a string object (and IIRC
> this is checked in object.c or abstract.c). The correct way
> to get there is to simply return str(...) or to have a
> switch on the type of self.tagName and then call .encode().
> ...

I prefer the former solution and unless someone screams I will check
that in in a few hours.

Why can't repr have a special case that converts Unicode strings to
"Python strings" automatically. This case is going to byte other people.

> Ok. I believe tagName will be always a Unicode object (as mandated by
> the DOM API), so I propose patch 100706
> (http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100706&group_id=5470)

I would like Unicode usage to be a userland option for reasons of
performance and backwards compatibility.

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