does raw_input() return unicode?
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Oct 10 04:20:18 EDT 2006
Theerasak Photha wrote:
>>> So, does raw_input() ever return unicode objects and if
>>> so, under what conditions?
>>
>> At the moment, it only returns unicode objects when invoked
>> in the IDLE shell, and only if the character entered cannot
>> be represented in the locale's charset.
>
> Why only IDLE? Does urwid or another console UI toolkit avoid this somehow?
Martin was probably thinking of the standard distribution.
The 2.3 note says that "raw_input() *can* return Unicode", not that it
"should" or "must" do it.
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