On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Neil Schemenauer wrote: > John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The note (4) says that the result will be unicode, but it doesn't say how, >> in this case, that comes about. This case is confusing because the docs >> claim string formatting with %s "converts ... using str()", and yet >> str(a()) returns a bytestring. Does it *really* use str, or just __str__? >> Surely the latter? (given the observed behaviour, and not reading the C >> source) > > It uses __str__ and confirms that the returned object is a 'str' or > 'unicode'. The docs are not precise but they were not for 2.4 > either. Note the following case: [...]
OK, but I assume you're not saying that the fact that the docs were broken in 2.4 implies they shouldn't be fixed now? I would suggest revised wording, but I'm clearly confused about what actually goes on under the hood... John _______________________________________________ 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
