[IronPython] Django, __unicode__, and #20366

[Jeff Hardy]

Sounds good, Dino. Thanks.

- Jeff

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Dino Viehland <dinov at microsoft.com> wrote:
> It definitely won't be in 2.6RC1 but could be in 2.6 final (or RC2 or whatever).
>
> I'm still looking into Michael's proposed fix of recognizing calls to unicode -
> it's a little tricky dealing with * and **args calls to it and I got distracted
> by preparing for PyCon.
>
> Hopefully I can finish that up in the next couple of days and see how that
> works vs. just calling __unicode__ when __str__ gets called.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-
>> bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Hardy
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:21 AM
>> To: Discussion of IronPython
>> Subject: Re: [IronPython] Django, __unicode__, and #20366
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Dino Viehland <dinov at microsoft.com> wrote:
>> > 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 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.
>>
>> Hi Dino,
>> It looks like this is a major impediment to running Django; the
>> majority of the test suite failures are because IronPython calls
>> __str__ instead of __unicode__. Any chance this could be fixed for
>> 2.6.1? I know it's a big change, but IMHO it's pretty critical as
>> well.
>>
>> - Jeff
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