[Python-Dev] unicode and __str__

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     Neil> Shouldn't we be heading to a world where __str__ always returns
>     Neil> unicode objects?
> 
> Which reminds me...  Didn't someone (MAL?) add an experimental configure
> flag or something similar to allow building Python with PyString* ==
> PyUnicode* (or something like that)?  I think the idea was to see what needs
> to be fixed before Python can become 100% Unicode.  Last I recall it was
> lots.

The option is -U, and it causes string literals to be treated as Unicode
objects. Currently, it gets so far as to start the interactive
interpreter.

Regards,
Martin