The behavior of the unicode built-in function when given a unicode string seems a little odd to me:
>>> unicode(u"abc") u'abc' >>> unicode(u"abc", "ascii") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported I don't see why providing the encoding should make the function behave differently when given a Unicode string. Surely unicode(s) ought to bahave exactly the same as unicode(s,sys.getdefaultencoding())? Any opinions? Mike. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
