[Modeling-users] type('') and unicode

[Yannick G. <yan...@sa...>]

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I stumbled upon some "if type(foo)=3D=3Dtype(''):" in the code=20
(grep -r -E "type\(''\)" .).  This fail to match unicode that behave
like as string but is not the same type :

  >>> type(u'') =3D=3D type('')
  0

Is this some kind of obscure feature ?

This is used in the Qualifier code and it seems likely to me that
someone will eventually try to make a fetch with unicode.  In fact I
might just try that right now...

  UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

Argh !

there is "type(foo) in (type(''), type(u''))" or I could encode my
query or who knows what.  Since some RDMS (aka MySQL) choke on
unicode, maybe it would be best to have every queries encoded in utf-8
but I prefer to have your opinion 1st.

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Yannick Gingras
Byte Gardener, Savoir-faire Linux inc.
(514) 276-5468

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