On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 06:56:39PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: > My first response to the PEP, however, is that instead of a new > built-in function, I'd rather relax the requirement that str() return > an 8-bit string
Do you have any thoughts on what the C API would be? It seems to me that PyObject_Str cannot start returning a unicode object without a lot of code breakage. I suppose we could introduce a function called something like PyObject_String. Neil _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com