Walter Dörwald wrote: > Brett C. wrote: > >> Walter Dörwald wrote: >> >>> M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >>> >>>> [...] >>>> I don't have a clear picture of what the consensus currently >>>> looks like :-) >>>> >>>> If we're going for for a solution that implements the hook >>>> awareness for all __<typename>__ hooks, I'd be +1 on that. >>>> If we only touch the __unicode__ case, we'd only be created >>>> yet another special case. I'd vote -0 on that. >>>> [...] >>> >>> >>> Here's the patch that implements this for int/long/float/unicode: >>> http://www.python.org/sf/1109424 >> >> >> Any movement on this? +1 for making things work like str; if a >> subclass overrides __str__ it should use that method. If correctness >> of what is >> returned is a worry then a check could be tossed in before the value >> is returned. > > > It already works that way: > > Python 2.5a0 (#1, Feb 24 2005, 16:25:04) > [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> class u(unicode): > ... def __unicode__(self): return 42 Well then I am +1 on doing this. Since this is a semantic change probably need Guido to OK this? -Brett
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