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Thu Sep 9 20:09:56 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-September/048743.html

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
>
> Perhaps this is more approprate for python-list but I looks like a
> bug to me.  Example code:
> 
>     class A:
>         def __str__(self):
>             return u'\u1234'
> 
>     '%s' % u'\u1234' # this works
>     '%s' % A() # this doesn't work
> 
> It will work if 'A' subclasses from 'unicode' but should not be
> necessary, IMHO.  Any reason why this shouldn't be fixed?

Check the recent python-dev archives for a long and nauseating thread
about interactions between __str__ and unicode.
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[Python-Dev] unicode inconsistency?