[rfc] bencode unicode strings

[Aaron Bentley]

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Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> Thanks for the hints.
> 
> Aaron Bentley пишет:
> No, Configobj can work in bytestring or unicode modes.
> 
>> AFAICT it's not quite true re writing non-ascii data to file.
>> According to ConfigObj documentation:
> 
>> "When using the write method, ConfigObj uses the encoding attribute to
>> encode the Unicode strings.

But when the encoding attribute is None, it does not encode strings.

>> So I'm doubt one can write any byte stream to config file (because
>> configobj will try to decode these bytes to unicode under the hood).

> If you're storing them in config files, you should generally store
> human-readable values.  ConfigObj supports dict of (dicts of) unicode
> strings-- isn't that sufficient?
> 
>> Do you mean standard ConfigObj interface as dict-like object?
>> Yep, it will work, just require to use ConfigObj directly and bypassing
>> internal config classes from bzrlib.

I think you can actually use the standard API (though this wasn't
intended behaviour)

$ python
Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41)
[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import bzrlib.config
>>> bzrlib.config.GlobalConfig().set_user_option('foo', {'me':'you'})
>>> bzrlib.config.GlobalConfig().get_user_option('foo')
{u'me': u'you'}

Aaron
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