Craig McQueen <ces-...@mcqueen.id.au> added the comment: I think I see now--it accepts Unicode input, but converts it back to bytes internally using the ASCII codec. So it works as long as the Unicode input contains on ASCII characters. That's a gotcha.
It appears that it's been fixed in Python 3.x, judging by the documentation. ---------- versions: +Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1606092> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com