[ZPT] Coerce result using unicode() rather than str() ?

[Stuart Bishop]

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I have an object that defines the __unicode__ method to return
a Unicode representation of the object.

The TALES to get it included in a page template is pretty ugly however:

<span tal:content="python:unicode(m)" />

Of course, I'd much rather just do <span tal:content="m" />

Does it seem like a sane change to render the result as a Unicode
string if the object defines the conversion routine?

if not isinstance(result, (str, unicode)):
	if hasattr(result, '__unicode__'):
		return unicode(result)
     else:
		return str(result)

(Hmm... would this be in ZPT or ZPublisher?)

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Stuart Bishop <stuart at stuartbishop.net>
http://www.stuartbishop.net/
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