Theerasak Photha wrote: >>> So, does raw_input() ever return unicode objects and if >>> so, under what conditions? >> >> At the moment, it only returns unicode objects when invoked >> in the IDLE shell, and only if the character entered cannot >> be represented in the locale's charset. > > Why only IDLE? Does urwid or another console UI toolkit avoid this somehow?
Martin was probably thinking of the standard distribution. The 2.3 note says that "raw_input() *can* return Unicode", not that it "should" or "must" do it. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
