From 6481e09084718ac87333e0ba183588142bbde93b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:11:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 76395 via svnmerge from
 svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r76395 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-11-18 21:00:02 -0600 (Wed, 18 Nov 2009) | 1 line

  #5037 proxy __unicode__ correctly
........
---
 Lib/test/test_weakref.py | 11 +++++++++++
 Misc/NEWS                |  3 +++
 Objects/weakrefobject.c  | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_weakref.py b/Lib/test/test_weakref.py
index aeafddab72..ba109aefd2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_weakref.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_weakref.py
@@ -188,6 +188,17 @@ class ReferencesTestCase(TestBase):
         self.assertEqual(L3[:5], p3[:5])
         self.assertEqual(L3[2:5], p3[2:5])
 
+    def test_proxy_unicode(self):
+        # See bug 5037
+        class C(object):
+            def __str__(self):
+                return "string"
+            def __unicode__(self):
+                return u"unicode"
+        instance = C()
+        self.assertTrue("__unicode__" in dir(weakref.proxy(instance)))
+        self.assertEqual(unicode(weakref.proxy(instance)), u"unicode")
+
     def test_proxy_index(self):
         class C:
             def __index__(self):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c75f369981..4e7d9e3bf1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -251,6 +251,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method instead to __unicode__
+  instead of __str__.
+
 - Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
 
 - Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
diff --git a/Objects/weakrefobject.c b/Objects/weakrefobject.c
index 9cdd02178d..1a998b64bd 100644
--- a/Objects/weakrefobject.c
+++ b/Objects/weakrefobject.c
@@ -433,6 +433,13 @@ proxy_checkref(PyWeakReference *proxy)
         return generic(proxy, v, w); \
     }
 
+#define WRAP_METHOD(method, special) \
+    static PyObject * \
+    method(PyObject *proxy) { \
+	    UNWRAP(proxy); \
+		return PyObject_CallMethod(proxy, special, ""); \
+	}
+
 
 /* direct slots */
 
@@ -593,6 +600,15 @@ proxy_iternext(PyWeakReference *proxy)
 }
 
 
+WRAP_METHOD(proxy_unicode, "__unicode__");
+
+
+static PyMethodDef proxy_methods[] = {
+	{"__unicode__", (PyCFunction)proxy_unicode, METH_NOARGS},
+	{NULL, NULL}
+};
+
+
 static PyNumberMethods proxy_as_number = {
     proxy_add,              /*nb_add*/
     proxy_sub,              /*nb_subtract*/
@@ -684,6 +700,7 @@ _PyWeakref_ProxyType = {
     0,                                  /* tp_weaklistoffset */
     (getiterfunc)proxy_iter,            /* tp_iter */
     (iternextfunc)proxy_iternext,       /* tp_iternext */
+	proxy_methods,                      /* tp_methods */
 };
 
 
-- 
2.50.1