So far, noone has commented on this idea. I would like to go ahead and check in patch which passes through Unicode objects to the file-object's .write() method while leaving the standard str() call for all other objects in place. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Consulting: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/ "M.-A. Lemburg" wrote: > > There was some discussion about this subject before, but nothing > much happened, so here we go again... > > Printing in Python is a rather complicated task. It involves many > different APIs, flags, etc. Deep down in the printing machinery > there is a hidden call to str() which converts the to be printed > object into a string object. > > This is fine for non-string objects like numbers, but causes trouble > when it comes to printing Unicode objects due to the auto-conversions > this causes. > > There is a patch on SF which tries to remedy this, but it introduces > a special attribute to maintain backward compatibility: > > http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=103685&group_id=5470 > > I don't really like the idea to add such an attribute to the > file object. Instead, I think that we should simply pass along > Unicode objects as-is to the file object's .write() method and > have the method take care of the conversion. > > This will break some code, since not all file-like objects expect > non-strings as input to the .write() method, but I think this small > code breakage is worth it as it allows us to redirect printing > to streams which convert Unicode input into a specific output > encoding. > > Thoughts ? > > -- > Marc-Andre Lemburg > ______________________________________________________________________ > Company: http://www.egenix.com/ > Consulting: http://www.lemburg.com/ > Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/ > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
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