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Alexander Shigin commented on THRIFT-395:
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> 2. pass a binary string containing ascii characters to a `string` field ->
> works
By accident. It shouldn't work, but you are lucky.
> 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
> Attachments: python-utf8.patch
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>
> 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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