[Pyobjc-dev] [ pyobjc-Bugs-2128265 ] obj-c instances should not return utf8 in __repr__

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Bugs item #2128265, was opened at 2008-09-25 14:46
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Vladimir Pouzanov (farcaller)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: obj-c instances should not return utf8 in __repr__

Initial Comment:
__repr__ of obj-c class instances should not return unicode (from [someobj description]), this makes interpreters (python, ipython) very unhappy, failing with:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u***' in position ***: ordinal not in range(128)

repr should only return some internal description of object,

return PyString_FromFormat(
		"<%s objective-c instance %p>",
		self->ob_type->tp_name, self->objc_object);

this is really enough.

__str__ could also return string, pre-encoded in utf-8 (.encode('utf8'), it's not supposed to return any utf8 chars too.

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