[notmuch] Unicode in Python bindings
Amadeusz Żołnowski
aidecoe at aidecoe.name
Sun Jul 7 00:00:16 PDT 2013
Hello,
I have come across a problem with Unicode [1] in afew mail filter which
uses Notmuch Python bindings and it has eventually bringed us to
confusion about Unicode handling in Python bindings.
Shouldn't __unicode__() methods return value of type unicode? Let's
take an example of __unicode__() method from Message class:
def __unicode__(self):
format = "%s (%s) (%s)"
return format % (self.get_header('from'),
self.get_tags(),
date.fromtimestamp(self.get_date()),
)
format is of type str, not unicode and method is eventually going to
return str, while the user of the API is expecting unicode type.
I haven't programmed in Python 3, yet - only in Python 2, so maybe I am
missing something. When I was writing a big project in Python 2, I have
eventually decided to use u'' literals everywhere and decode any str to
unicode ASAP - and this solved all issues wrt encodings. I guess that
mixing Python 2 and 3 gets even more problematic.
Could you review (and fix if it is needed) Python bindings in context of
unicode handling, please?
[1] https://github.com/teythoon/afew/issues/36
Regards,
--
Amadeusz Żołnowski
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