Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Serhiy Storchaka wrote: >> .__repr__() is not really allowed to return Unicode objects in Python 2.x. >> If you do this, you're on your own. > > PyObject_Repr() contains a code which converts unicode to str and raise an > exception if __repr__() result is not str or unicode. Unicode __repr__() is > expected even if it is not recommended.
True, but the code is not intended to support non-ASCII Unicode, otherwise we would have taken care to introduce support for this much earlier in the 2.x series. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5876> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
