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Author	arigo
Recipients	Nam.Nguyen, arigo, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, lemburg, liori, r.david.murray, vstinner
Date	2011-09-06.16:56:40
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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A __repr__() that returns unicode can, in CPython 2.7 be used in "%s" % x or in u"%s" % x --- both expressions then return a unicode without doing any encoding --- but it cannot be used anywhere else, e.g. in "%r" % x or in repr(x). See also the PyPy issue https://bugs.pypy.org/issue857 .

A __repr__() that returns unicode can, in CPython 2.7 be used in  "%s" % x  or in  u"%s" % x  --- both expressions then return a unicode without doing any encoding --- but it cannot be used anywhere else, e.g. in  "%r" % x  or in  repr(x).  See also the PyPy issue https://bugs.pypy.org/issue857 .

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2011-09-06 16:56:41	arigo	set	recipients: + arigo, lemburg, vstinner, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, liori, Nam.Nguyen
2011-09-06 16:56:41	arigo	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2011-09-06 16:56:40	arigo	link	issue5876 messages
2011-09-06 16:56:40	arigo	create