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[Python-Dev] __str__ and unicode

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Dec 6 14:09:52 CET 2006 
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On Dec 6, 2006, at 7:07 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> On 2006-12-06 10:26, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>>> From what I can tell, __str__ may return a Unicode object, but
>>> only if can be converted to an 8-bit string using the default  
>>> encoding.  Is this
>>> on purpose or by accident?  Do we have a plan for improving the  
>>> situation
>>> in future 2.X releases ?
>
> It has worked that way since at Python least 2.4 (I just tried  
> returning
> unicode from __str__ in 2.4.1 and it worked fine). That's the  
> oldest version I
> have handy, so I don't know if it was possible in earlier versions.

I don't have anything older than 2.4 laying around either, but IIRC  
in 2.3 unicode() did not call __unicode__().

- -Barry

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