strange behaviour of str()

From: Juho Vuori <juho.vuori@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:20:21 +0300

Hello,

I'm wondering about the following behaviour of str() with strings containing non-ASCII characters:

str(u'foo') returns 'foo' as expected.

str('lää') returns 'lää' as expected.

str(u'lää') raises UnicodeEncodeError

Is this behaviour sane? Possibly, but not documented at all. Somehow you'd expect str() to never fail. I'm hesitating about sending a bug report about a third party application, which fails because it is relaying on this.

Cheers,
Juho Vuori
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