[Python-Dev] unicode and str (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Aug 31 06:56:26 CEST 2004

Skip Montanaro wrote:

Neil> Shouldn't we be heading to a world where str always returns Neil> unicode objects?

Which reminds me... Didn't someone (MAL?) add an experimental configure flag or something similar to allow building Python with PyString* == PyUnicode* (or something like that)? I think the idea was to see what needs to be fixed before Python can become 100% Unicode. Last I recall it was lots.

The option is -U, and it causes string literals to be treated as Unicode objects. Currently, it gets so far as to start the interactive interpreter.

Regards, Martin

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