[Python-Dev] Exception.unicode and tp_unicode (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 11:34:35 CEST 2008

Simon Cross wrote:

Originally Python exceptions had no unicode method. In Python 2.5 unicode was added. This led to "unicode(Exception)" failing and so the addition of unicode was reverted [1].

This leaves Python 2.6 in a position where calls to "unicode(Exception(u'\xe1'))" fail as they are equivalent to "uncode(str(Exception(u'\xe1'))" which cannot convert the non-ASCII character to ASCII (or other default encoding) [2].

From here there are 3 options: 1) Leave things as they are. 2) Add back unicode and have "unicode(Exception)" fail. 3) Add a tpunicode slot to Python objects and have everything work (at the cost of adding the slot).

  1. Fix PyObject_Unicode to not retrieve unicode from new-style instances, and instead only look for the method on their types (similar to the way PyObject_Format looks up the format method).

Cheers, Nick.

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