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

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Mon Aug 30 23:36:18 CEST 2004


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.

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