John Hunter wrote:
> On 3/17/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In response to the feature request:
>>
>> Does anyone see any disadvantage to making Text.__init__ and
>> Text.set_text() either try to call the __str__ method, or use the str()
>> builtin, if passed an argument that is not a string? Maybe there is no
>> need to even check--just automatically use str(arg)? Offhand, this
>> looks to me like it would provide a gain in convenience and
>> intuitiveness with no pain.
>
> My concern is that we don't break unicode support , so if you come up
> with a solution that supports calling str but doesn't break unicode,
> it's fine by me
>
>
> In [2]: x = unicode('D\351velopp\351s et fabriqu\351s', 'latin-1')
>
> In [3]: x
> Out[3]: u'D\xe9velopp\xe9s et fabriqu\xe9s'
Looks like the simplest thing is
arg = '%s' % (arg,)
I'll give that a try.
Eric
>
> In [4]: str(x)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError Traceback (most
> recent call last)
>
> /Users/jdhunter/<ipython console>
>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\ue9' in
> position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
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