[Python-Dev] Removing the implicit str() call from printing API

[Guido van Rossum]

> mal wrote:
> 
> > I would like to go ahead and check in patch which passes through 
> > Unicode objects to the file-object's .write() method while leaving
> > the standard str() call for all other objects in place.
> 
> +0 for Python 2.1
> +1 for Python 2.2

I have not had the time to review any of the arguments for this, and I
would be very disappointed if this happened without my involvement.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)