Message1871

The string representation of unicode and subclass of unicode seems to be different. 

In CPython
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Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jul 18 2007, 13:30:45)
[GCC 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
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>>> class B(unicode):
...     pass
...
>>> a=unicode("12")
>>> b=B("12")
>>> a
u'12'
>>> b
u'12'
>>> repr(a)
"u'12'"
>>> repr(b)
"u'12'"

In Jython
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Jython 2.3a0 on java1.6.0_01
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>>> class B(unicode):
...     pass
...
>>> a=unicode("12")
>>> b=B("12")
>>> a
u'12'
>>> b
u12
>>> repr(a)
u"u'12'"
>>> repr(b)
'u12'