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.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index a3678d5..c1f3d54 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -413,6 +413,7 @@ PyObject *PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject(register PyObject *obj,
     }
     else 
 	v = PyUnicode_Decode(s, len, encoding, errors);
+
  done:
     if (owned) {
 	Py_DECREF(obj);