In my application I would prefer to use Python's *unicode* type for all string data. In my database I am storing strings as *utf-8* encoded. The problem is that when I read one of these fields using the DAL, the new object returned to my application is of type Python *string* rather than type
*unicode.*Code inspection shows me that In web2py's dal.py source file, the parse_value() method explicitly converts any variables that are of type *unicode* to type *string* (encoded as utf-8). Why does it do so? Why not leave the fields as type *unicode?*Is there any way to tell web2py that when it reads data from the database I want string data returned to me as *unicode* rather than *string* ? -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
