I really don't understand the following behavior: >>> class C(object): ... def __init__(self, s): self.s = s ... def __str__(self): return self.s ... >>> cafe = unicode("Caf\xe9", "Latin-1") >>> c = C(cafe) >>> print "Print using c.s:", c.s Print using c.s: Café >>> print "Print using just c:", c Print using just c: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) >>> str(c) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)
Why would "print c.s" work but the other two cases throw an exception? Any help understanding this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Gerard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list