[Python-Dev] unicode inconsistency? (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nas at arctrix.com
Thu Sep 9 22:03:26 CEST 2004

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:00:07PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:

[Martin v. L?wis] > I can't see any harm by supporting this operation also if str returns > a Unicode object.

It doesn't sound like a good idea to me, at least in part because it would be darned messy to implement short of saying "OK, we don't give a rip anymore about what type of objects PyObject{Str,Repr} return"

Just to be clear, I don't propose allowing PyObject_Str and PyObject_Repr to return unicode objects. That would be a disaster, IMO.

Neil

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