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Jonathan Ellis commented on THRIFT-395:
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Wrong.
Python 2 has a strong tradition of using the str type for _ascii_ strings as
well as blobs.
That continues to work fine with this patch.
Python 2 has always used the unicode type for unicode strings.
Passing random binary stuff that may or may not be the result of encoding a
unicode object to something expecting a unicode string (and i mean generically
not specifically the unicode type) will crap out.
Try it with sqlalchemy or mako or any modern unicode-supporting python 2
library.
> Python library + compiler does not support unicode strings
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>
> Key: THRIFT-395
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-395
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Compiler (Python), Library (Python)
> Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
> Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.1
>
> Attachments: python-utf8-v2.patch, python-utf8.patch
>
>
> Effectively, all strings in the python bindings are treated as binary strings
> -- no encoding/decoding to UTF-8 is done. So if a unicode object is passed
> to a (regular, non-binary) string, an exception is raised.
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