Re: [Jython-users] Unicode

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[samuele]

>I start to think that Paul Prescod is right here. 
>
>In CPython
>
>Python 2.1 (#15, Apr 16 2001, 18:25:49) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
>Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> unicode(u"\xe9")
>u'\xe9'
>>>>
>
>while
>
>Jython 2.1 on java1.3.0 (JIT: null)
>Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> unicode(u"\xe9")
>Traceback (innermost last):
>  File "<console>", line 1, in ?
>UnicodeError: ascii decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>>
>
>The question is: it is better to fail when CPython does not fails or not to
>fail when
>CPython fails and succeed when CPython succeeds. I'm maybe missing something
>subtle but I prefer the  latter and so unicode without an encoding should be a
>nop.

The 2.2 docs has (the 2.1 didn't) a huge special case for the single arg
unicode() call. 

   http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/built-in-funcs.html

So, yes, we could change this for 2.2 without breaking the docs.

regards,
finn