Guido van Rossum wrote:
> For data types whose output uses only ASCII, would it be acceptable if
> they always returned an 8-bit string and left it up to the caller to
> convert it to Unicode? This would apply to all numeric types. (The
> date/time types have a strftime() style API which means the user must
> be able to specifiy Unicode.)
To elaborate on this a bit (and handwaving a lot of important details
out of the way) do you mean something like the following for the builtin
format?:
def format(obj, fmt_spec=None):
if fmt_spec is None: fmt_spec=''
result = obj.__format__(fmt_spec)
if isinstance(fmt_spec, unicode):
if isinstance(result, str):
result = unicode(result)
return result
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia
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