[Docutils-develop] [ docutils-Bugs-3606659 ] type-checking error in io.Input.decode

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Bugs item #3606659, was opened at 2013-03-03 00:44
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Philip (eightpm)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: type-checking error in io.Input.decode

Initial Comment:
In the mothod 'decode' of docutils.io.Input (of docutils.io.py):

        if self.encoding and self.encoding.lower() == 'unicode':
            assert isinstance(data, unicode), (
                'input encoding is "unicode" '
                'but input is not a unicode object')

if I understand correctly, that assert statement should be:

            assert not isinstance(data, unicode), (

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