[Python-Dev] Unicode as argument for 8-bit format strings

[Guido van Rossum]

> No problem... :-) Its a simple fix: once %s in an 8-bit string
> sees a Unicode object it will stop processing the string and
> restart using the unicode formatting algorithm. 

But the earlier items might already have incurred side effects
(e.g. when rendering user code)...  Unless you save all the strings
you got for reuse, which seems a pain as well.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)