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I don't mean to completely dismiss your bug report: I generally close them when I've personally deemed them invalid -- but users can always reopen if they disagree. That's for the sake of keeping the tracker organized. We get a lot of bug reports and where the reporters disappear when we're expecting more correspondence.

So we can agree #1 and #2 aren't problematic. Can we also agree that #3 doesn't really relate to any Python 2.5 convention? java.lang.String is a completely different beast in this respect. Maybe you can describe the use case you're running into with its current behavior.

When I think about #4 again it's somewhat related to the recently fixed #1563. What you're really suggesting is we make __str__ on Java types use encode(). With #1563 that's a reasonable request, though I'm concerned it could break something