This patch adds a new builtin unistr() which behaves like str()

except that it always returns Unicode objects.

A new C API PyObject_Unicode() is also provided.

This closes patch #101664.

Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Include/abstract.h b/Include/abstract.h
index 9c18bbd42f..2c0e73508d 100644
--- a/Include/abstract.h
+++ b/Include/abstract.h
@@ -271,6 +271,18 @@ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*/
 
        */
 
+     /* Implemented elsewhere:
+
+     PyObject *PyObject_Unicode(PyObject *o);
+
+	 Compute the unicode representation of object, o.  Returns the
+	 unicode representation on success, NULL on failure.  This is
+	 the equivalent of the Python expression: unistr(o).)
+
+	 Called by the unistr() built-in function.
+
+       */
+
      DL_IMPORT(int) PyCallable_Check(PyObject *o);
 
        /*