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| author | Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> | 2001-01-17 17:09:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> | 2001-01-17 17:09:53 (GMT) |
| commit | ad7c98e264bbc9c84e911417c8770f6e95ffb794 (patch) | |
| tree | 7586edae78b019c6c2db46861da762083e0c3c8a /Doc/lib | |
| parent | d5c43065d5aa7bd8b9ec67525bd01d2c09a7759f (diff) | |
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This patch adds a new builtin unistr() which behaves like str()
except that it always returns Unicode objects.
A new C API PyObject_Unicode() is also provided.
This closes patch #101664.
Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex index 2f8dcf9..6b8d64c 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex @@ -694,6 +694,12 @@ to decode UTF-8 in strict mode, meaning that encoding errors raise \versionadded{2.0} \end{funcdesc} +\begin{funcdesc}{unistr}{object} +Return a Unicode string containing a nicely printable representation of an +object. For Unicode, this returns the Unicode string itself. For +all other objects, it tries to convert \code{str(\var{object})] to Unicode. +\end{funcdesc} + \begin{funcdesc}{vars}{\optional{object}} Without arguments, return a dictionary corresponding to the current local symbol table. With a module, class or class instance object as |