[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 292 - Simpler String Substitutions

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 12:32, Tim Peters wrote:

> Apologies to Barry, but I'm +1 on auto-str() too.  It's a string
> interpolation -- the user is explicitly asking for a string.  If they
> made a mistake, it was in asking for a string to begin with, not in
> feeding it a non-string.

Should it be auto-unicode(), given that Template is derived from
unicode?  And if so, should we entertain the possibility of insanities
like giving the user the ability to pass optional arguments to the
unicode() call?  If the answers to that are yes and no, that's fine with
me.

-Barry

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