Any way to tolerate Unicode w/o changing '' to u''?...

Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:27:06 -0700

Django users,

In my Django app, I want to allow users to enter Unicode
strings.  But if they do, I get UnicodeEncodeError when I call
format() to embed their string into other strings.  Is there an
easy way to tolerate the Unicode?

Details:

After prompting the user for name, I may have a line of code like:

    log('Name entered was: {0}'.format(name))

With Python 2.7.3 and Django 1.4.3, this raises exception
UnicodeEncodeError if the user entered a string containing
Unicode chars, because it tries to embed Unicode chars into
my ASCII string template.  So, I have to I change it to:

    log(u'Name entered was: {0}'.format(name))

I have many thousands of such lines in my 200,000+ lines of
Python and Django code.

Is there a master switch somewhere that would cause a Python
2.x string literal to default to Unicode instead of ASCII, as it
does in Python 3? 

Or do I have to explicitly change '' to u'' in all such places?

I looked into adding a line like this to the top of the file, but
no luck because it seems to only affect the encoding of Unicode
string literals (u''), not regular string literals (''):

    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

Any suggestions?  Much appreciated.  Thanks!

--Fred
Fred Stluka -- mailto:[email protected] -- http://bristle.com/~fred/
Bristle Software, Inc -- http://bristle.com -- Glad to be of service!
Open Source: Without walls and fences, we need no Windows or Gates.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/57101921.80505%40bristle.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to