anuraguni...@yahoo.com wrote:
> First of all thanks everybody for putting time with my confusing post
> and I apologize for not being clear after so many efforts.
>
> here is my last try (you are free to ignore my request for free
> advice)
Finally! This is the first of your posts that makes sense to me ;)
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>
> class A(object):
>
> def __unicode__(self):
> return u"©au"
>
> def __repr__(self):
> return unicode(self).encode("utf-8")
>
> __str__ = __repr__
>
> a = A()
> u1 = unicode(a)
> u2 = unicode([a])
>
> now I am not using print so that doesn't matter stdout can print
> unicode or not
> my naive question is line u2 = unicode([a]) throws
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position
> 1: ordinal not in range(128)
list doesn't have a __unicode__ method. unicode() therefore converts the
list to str as a fallback and then uses sys.getdefaultencoding() to convert
the result to unicode.
> shouldn't list class call unicode on its elements?
No, it calls repr() on its elements. This is done to avoid confusing output:
>>> items = ["a, b", "[c]"]
>>> items
['a, b', '[c]']
>>> "[%s]" % ", ".join(map(str, items))
'[a, b, [c]]'
> I was expecting that so instead do i had to do this
> u3 = "["+u",".join(map(unicode,[a]))+"]"
Peter
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