str vs unicode

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 05/27/2011 05:19 AM, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
>> So then the question is, should we perhaps instead move to using
>> __unicode__ on objects for the latter, for the sake of being a bit
>> safer with unicode values, and perhaps also for an easier transition
>> to python3?
> 
> Doesn't python3 delete __unicode__ ? In the spirit of having no
> compatiblity concerns, after all :)
> 
> -Rob
> 

It deleted __unicode__ because __str__ *is* __unicode__.

So I'm in favor of using __unicode__ in python2 for anything that is
user-facing.

Just like 'paths' are Unicode inside bzrlib, 'messages' should be
Unicode as well.

John
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