From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:39:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document __unicode__. Fixes #541245.
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Document __unicode__. Fixes #541245.
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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex
index 2056a6c78dee..8dbe8f07b276 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex
@@ -1096,6 +1096,13 @@ considered true.
 \withsubitem{(mapping object method)}{\ttindex{__len__()}}
 \end{methoddesc}
 
+\begin{methoddesc}[object]{__unicode__}{self}
+Called to implement \function{unicode()}\bifuncindex{unicode} builtin;
+should return a Unicode object. When this method is not defined, string
+conversion is attempted, and the result of string conversion is converted
+to Unicode using the system default encoding.
+\end{methoddesc}
+
 
 \subsection{Customizing attribute access\label{attribute-access}}