This patch adds a new builtin unistr() which behaves like str()
except that it always returns Unicode objects.
A new C API PyObject_Unicode() is also provided.
This closes patch #101664.
Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
index 2f8dcf9..6b8d64c 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
@@ -694,6 +694,12 @@
\versionadded{2.0}
\end{funcdesc}
+\begin{funcdesc}{unistr}{object}
+Return a Unicode string containing a nicely printable representation of an
+object. For Unicode, this returns the Unicode string itself. For
+all other objects, it tries to convert \code{str(\var{object})] to Unicode.
+\end{funcdesc}
+
\begin{funcdesc}{vars}{\optional{object}}
Without arguments, return a dictionary corresponding to the current
local symbol table. With a module, class or class instance object as