Python in a Nutshell

Name

__unicode__ — Python 2.2 and later

Synopsis

__unicode__(self)

The unicode( x ) built-in type call, in Python 2.2 and later, invokes x .__unicode__( ), if present, in preference to x .__str__( ). If a class supplies both special methods __unicode__ and __str__, the two should return equivalent strings (of Unicode and plain string type respectively).