[Zope3-dev] i18n, unicode, and the underline

[Barry Warsaw]

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 14:51, Martijn Faassen wrote:

> > - We're still going to have spurious bugs, but we expect them to be 
> > special cases.  For example, expressions like this will fail intermittently:
> > 
> > u"The OID of obj is %s" % obj._p_oid
> > 
> > ... but of course this expression is wrong; it should use repr().  It's 
> > also for developers only.
> 
> If _p_oid is actually a sequence of bytes then yes, that would be wrong.

Personally, I think it's crazy to use anything other than %r / `` /
repr() with oids. :)

-Barry