[IronPython] Django, __unicode__, and #20366

[Michael Foord]

On 01/02/2010 21:46, Dino Viehland wrote:
>> 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. :-)
>>
>>      
> Messing with identity starts to get really scary and I'd rather not go
> there - I'm sure there will be lots of edge cases which will be broken.
>
>    

I can imagine.

> I could see is making unicode(foo) do something different.  If you aliased
> unicode then you'd get str's behavior though but that might be perfectly
> acceptable.  It's definitely a solution I had not considered and it'd
> probably fix multiple issues.
>
>    

It might be worth a try if it isn't too much work. I think it would help 
*most* situations, aliasing unicode and str isn't *that* common.

Michael

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