Hi Minoru On 07/12/2016 03:01 AM, Minoru Akagi wrote: > Hi, > > Just a quick note for python plugin devs. > > I received an error report related to QGis.QGIS_VERSION constant [1]. > In QGIS 2.16, QGis.GIS_RELEASE_NAME and QGis.QGIS_VERSION constants > have been changed to unicode type. I guess that the change is > necessary for unicode release name support.
I don't think the type has changed. Before python just converted it silently because the conversion of a pure ascii unicode string was trivial. Compare: >>> str(u'Essen') 'Essen' >>> str(u'Nødebo') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf8' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) As a general rule of thumb: don't cast to other types if there is no requirement, that will help to prevent such issues and make the upcoming upgrade to python 3 much easier. Matthias _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
