String validator returning unicode

Peter Russell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.formencode
Organization Qustom
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I'm not entirely sure if this is a bug, but the behaviour of the String
validator seems odd to me.

If its to_python method is passed a unicode object it returns a unicode
object.  This is a problem when using SQLObject, where if you try to
pass unicode objects into StringCols (reasonably thinking they are
strings, since they've been through a string validator), you get a
unicode decode error.

I think the sensible behaviour for String would be to convert to str.
Is this sensible?
-- 
Peter Russell <[email protected]>
Qustom


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