Re: [Jython-users] Unicode

[<bc...@wo...>]

>> Then unicode() would be a no-op. It would just return the argument
>> without doing anything.

[Paul Prescod]

>Is that a problem? If the user specifies an encoding then you could
>decode. If they don't, I would suggest to just do a no-op. Under what
>circumstances would the current exception be more helpful?

The single argument unicode() call will use the default encoding. That
can be changed to something other than "ascii" and then a no-op makes
less sense:

[d:\]p22 -S
Python 2.2 (#28, Dec 21 2001, 12:21:22) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.setdefaultencoding("cp1253")
>>> unicode("\x80")
u'\u20ac'
>>>

regards,
finn