[IronPython] Django, __unicode__, and #20366

[Michael Foord]

On 01/02/2010 21:35, Jeff Hardy wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Dino Viehland<dinov at microsoft.com>  wrote:
>    
>> It always prefers __unicode__ over __str__.  We can't really only call
>> __unicode__ when __str__ isn't there because __str__ is always there.
>>      
> OK - didn't realize that. Not sure it would really improve the
> behaviour all that much anyway.
>
> Anything that really needs to know the difference and support
> IronPython can just check `str is unicode` anyway.
>
> Random thought: str(x, yes_really=True) to always call __str__? :)
>    

How about having str and unicode as different objects internally - so 
IronPython can tell the difference - but fake equality and identity 
checks *inside* IronPython. :-)

Or do something a bit similar to what Python 3 does with super... 
Compile different code for str(...) and unicode(...). I think I prefer 
that to the above. :-)

Michael

> - Jeff
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