[Python-Dev] unicode hell/mixing str and unicode as dictionary keys

[Michael Foord]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> [snip..]
> Expanding this view to Unicode should mean that a unicode
> string U equals a byte string B if
> U.encode(system_encode) == B or B.decode(system_encoding) == U,
> and that they don't equal otherwise (e.g. if the conversion
> fails with a "not convertible" exception). Which of the
> two conversions is selected is arbitrary; we should, of
> course, continue to use the one we always used (for
> "ascii", there is no difference between the two).
>
>   
+1

This seems the most (only ?) logical solution.

Michael Foord

> Regards,
> Martin
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