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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex index dbd3d55..793e472 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex @@ -873,13 +873,16 @@ def my_import(name): behaviour of \code{str()} except that it returns Unicode strings instead of 8-bit strings. More precisely, if \var{object} is an Unicode string or subclass it will return a Unicode string without - any additional decoding applied. For objects which provide a - \code{__unicode__} method, it will call this method without - arguments to create a Unicode string. For all other objects, the - 8-bit string version or representation is requested and then - converted to a Unicode string using the codec for the default - encoding in \code{'strict'} mode. + any additional decoding applied. + + For objects which provide a \method{__unicode__()} method, it will + call this method without arguments to create a Unicode string. For + all other objects, the 8-bit string version or representation is + requested and then converted to a Unicode string using the codec for + the default encoding in \code{'strict'} mode. + \versionadded{2.0} + \versionchanged[Support for \method{__unicode__()} added]{2.2} \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{vars}{\optional{object}} |