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function lexeme return different types of items in list

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Start by reproducing the two pattern.en.lexeme examples under the reported Python 2.7 environment, then trace the lexeme implementation and its tests. Check whether the differing str and unicode results are intentional; done means the behavior is either documented or covered by a consistent, agreed-upon result.

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Description

with pattern 2.6 Python 2.7.10 OSX.

I was trying to get a word's possible forms:

>>>from pattern.en import lexeme
>>>
>>>lexeme('excellent')
>>>['excellent', 'excellents', 'excellenting', 'excellented']    # this return str
>>>
>>>lexeme('baby')
>>>[u'baby', u'babies', u'babying', u'babied']   # this return unicode

lexeme returns different types of items.

is it designed to be like this or am i using this function in a wrong way?

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