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authorMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2001-09-20 12:59:37 (GMT)
committerMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2001-09-20 12:59:37 (GMT)
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Note about enhancements to unicode().
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@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ What's New in Python 2.2a4?
Core
+- PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() now works very much like
+ PyObject_Str(obj) in that it tries to use __str__/tp_str
+ on the object if the object is not a string or buffer. This
+ makes unicode() behave like str() when applied to non-string/buffer
+ objects.
+
- PyFile_WriteObject now passes Unicode object to the file's write
method. As a result, all file-like object which may be the target
of a print statement must support Unicode objects, i.e. they must