On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:42 PM, john
smallberries<welch.quietple...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> During a recent changeover to the new webhelpers, the word "FUCKED"
> started appearing in some of my html output. I tracked it back to:
> webhelpers/html/builder.py:257
> obj= unicode.__new__(cls, "FUCKED", encoding, errors)
>
> This was kind of a bother for me, as I spent many hours sifting
> through all the occurrences of "FUCKED" in my own code before
> realizing this was coming from the webhelpers module. Propose changing
> it to "webhelpers.html.FUCKED" for disambiguation.
If this is a real error and not a troll, you must have an old version
of WebHelpers. The current version (0.6.4) does not contain "FUCKED"
anywhere. The line numbers have changed but this seems to be the
function you're referring to:
def __new__(cls, string='', encoding='utf-8', errors="strict"):
"""Create the new literal string object."""
if isinstance(string, unicode):
obj = unicode.__new__(cls, string)
else:
obj = unicode.__new__(cls, string, encoding, errors)
obj.encoding = encoding
obj.error_mode = errors
return obj
I could search through the revisions and see if the code ever
contained "FUCKED", but it would be time-consuming. In any case, the
line cited does not make sense. It would create a constant
``u'FUCKED'`` regardless of the input value. I could see a past
programmer mistakenly believing that ``literal()`` without an argument
was illegal and returning ``u'FUCKED`` (instead of returning ``u''``
as it should), but that's not what the line cited does. And it also
doesn't make sense that the programmer would go to that obscurity to
create a constant when the simpler ``u"FUCKED"`` would have been
equivalent. So the code, if it did exist, must have been unfinished
at that stage.
--
Mike Orr <sluggos...@gmail.com>
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