I guess you might want six.text_type. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/python3/#string-handling may help.
On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 11:41:47 PM UTC-4, Fred Stluka wrote: > > Tim, > > Excellent response, thanks! The link to the doc is just what I > needed. > > One more question. I'm still getting UnicodeEncodeError on > some calls to str() because I should now be calling unicode() > instead. Any easy way to map all of my str() calls to unicode() > call? > > Thanks! > --Fred > ------------------------------ > Fred Stluka -- [email protected] <javascript:> -- > 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. > ------------------------------ > On 4/14/16 10:05 PM, Tim Graham wrote: > > You want `from __future__ import unicode_literals`: > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/unicode/#general-string-handling > > On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 6:27:07 PM UTC-4, Fred Stluka wrote: >> >> 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 -- [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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > 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/3da21b79-4bfd-4f05-bbc4-579505365376%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/3da21b79-4bfd-4f05-bbc4-579505365376%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- 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/afe0fa40-ebcf-4b96-b27c-ea5cf26a7ced%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
