#29086: Bytestrings on CharFields getting saved as "b'data'"
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Reporter: Collin Anderson | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Database layer | Version: 2.0
(models, ORM) |
Severity: Release blocker | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage:
| Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Jon Dufresne):
> Now, this change should at least have been mentioned in the 2.0 release
notes.
The [https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/2.0/#removed-support-
for-bytestrings-in-some-places release notes say]:
> To support native Python 2 strings, older Django versions had to accept
both bytestrings and unicode strings. Now that Python 2 support is
dropped, bytestrings should only be encountered around input/output
boundaries (handling of binary fields or HTTP streams, for example). You
might have to update your code to limit bytestring usage to a minimum, as
Django no longer accepts bytestrings in certain code paths.
>
> For example, `reverse()` now uses `str()` instead of `force_text()` to
coerce the `args` and `kwargs` it receives, prior to their placement in
the URL. For bytestrings, this creates a string with an undesired `b`
prefix as well as additional quotes (`str(b'foo')` is `"b'foo'"`). To
adapt, call `decode()` on the bytestring before passing it to `reverse()`.
Does that cover what you're looking for?
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29086#comment:5>
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