Re: UnicodeEncodeError during repr()

In <hqguja$tt$1@xxxxxxxxx> "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Do I need to do something especial to get repr to work strictly
with unicode?

Yes, you need to switch to Python 3 :-)

Or should __repr__ *always* return bytes rather than unicode?

In Python 2.x: yes.

What about __str__ ?

Likewise.

If both of these are supposed to return bytes,
then what method should I use to define the unicode representation
for instances of a class?

__unicode__.

Thanks!

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