New submission from G. Scott Johnston:
I've come up with the following series of minimal examples to demonstrate my
bug.
>>> unicode("")
u''
>>> unicode("", errors="ignore")
u''
>>> unicode("abcü")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3: ordinal
not in range(128)
>>> unicode("abcü", errors="ignore")
u'abc'
>>> unicode(3)
u'3'
>>> unicode(3, errors="ignore")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, int found
>>> unicode(unicode(""))
u''
>>> unicode(unicode(""), errors="ignore")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported
The first two pairs of mini-programs are reasonable behaviour. If the errors
parameter is set to "ignore", no additional errors are thrown, but characters
that produce encoding errors are skipped in the output, as expected.
The third pair of mini-programs can be solved by instead writing
unicode(str(3), errors="ignore"). This should likely be done automatically,
given the fact that unicode(3) behaves as expected, and properly converts
between types. The fact that the conversion is done automatically without the
errors parameter leads me to believe that there is a logic problem with the
code, where the setting errors="ignore" changes the path of execution by more
than just skipping characters that cause encoding errors.
The fourth pair of mini-programs is simply baffling. The first mini-program
clearly demonstrates that decoding a Unicode object is in fact supported. The
fact that the second mini-program claims it's not supported further
demonstrates that the logic depends on the errors="ignore" parameter more than
it should.
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messages: 196350
nosy: G..Scott.Johnston
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Encoding a unicode with unicode() and ignoring errors
versions: Python 2.7
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