[Python-Dev] Unicode in doctests

[Bjorn Tillenius]

There are some issues regarding the use of unicode in doctests. Consider
the following three tests.

    >>> foo = u'föö'
    >>> foo
    u'f\xf6\xf6'

    >>> foo
    u'f\u00f6\u00f6'

    >>> foo
    u'föö'

To me, those are identical. At least string comparison shows that
u'f\xf6\xf6' == u'f\u00f6\u00f6' == u'föö'. Yet, only the first one of
the tests passes, the other two fail. And that's if the tests are within
a doc string, where I can specify the encoding used. If DocFileSuite is
being used, there's no way of specify the encoding, thus all tests will
fail.

Is it supposed to be like this, or have I missed something? If I could
specify the encoding for DocFileSuite to use, I would at least be
partially happy.

Regards,

Bjorn