gb345 wrote:
In <hqguja$t...@online.de> "Martin v. Loewis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> writes:
Do I need to do something especial to get repr to work strictly
with unicode?
Yes, you need to switch to Python 3 :-)
Or should __repr__ *always* return bytes rather than unicode?
In Python 2.x: yes.
What about __str__ ?
Likewise.
If both of these are supposed to return bytes,
then what method should I use to define the unicode representation
for instances of a class?
__unicode__.
Thanks!
More precisely, __str__() and __repr__() return characters. Those
characters are 8 bits on Python 2.x, and Unicode on 3.x. If you need
unicode on 2.x, use __unicode__().
DaveA
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