Re: String validator returning unicode

Peter Russell <[email protected]> writes:

> 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?

And what would you do with characters that can't be represented in a single
charset?  The correct behavior to me would be to raise an exception when that
happens...  Or provide a way to do something like convert them to their
equivalent numeric code, strip those chars, make them "?", etc.  But it
shouldn't silently pass by default.

-- 
Jorge Godoy      <[email protected]>


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