[Python-Dev] unicode inconsistency?

[Neil Schemenauer]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:28:39PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
> >    '%u' % u'\u1234'
> >    '%u' % A()
> 
> That's the intent, yes.  Neil's original example would *also* "work"
> then (because unlike PyObject_Str(), PyObject_Unicode() is happy to
> accept a unicode result as-is from a tp_str implementation).

No, it would not "work" the way I want.  I don't want to force
things to unicode strings unless necessary.

  Neil