customized instance dictionaries, anyone?

2006-01-24 Thread wolfgang . lipp
some time after posting my `Linkdict recipe`__ to aspn__ -- basically, a dictionary with run-time delegational lookup, but this is not important here -- i thought gee that would be fun to make such a customized dictionary thingie an instance dictionary, and get some custom namespace behavior out of

Re: [Python-Dev] Revised PEP 349: Allow str() to return unicode strings

2005-08-23 Thread Wolfgang Lipp
just tested the proposed implementation on a unicode-naive module basically using import sys import __builtin__ reload( sys ); sys.setdefaultencoding( 'utf-8' ) __builtin__.__dict__[ 'str' ] = new_str_function et voilà, str() calls in the module are rewritten, and print u'düsseldorf' does