Python binding default string type

[Simon McVittie]

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On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 at 12:24:22 +0000, Tristan Hill wrote:
> I am updating an application using the 0.71 python dbus bindings to
> 0.82.  Several places are receiving a signal and use a caching layer
> that could eventually pickle the received value to disk.  Now that
> string values are dbus.String's pickle will complain when dumping to
> disk.
> 
> Is it recommended that I convert to a str in each signal receiver or can
> I make the bindings return a picklable string?

dbus.String is a subclass of unicode, not str, so use unicode(the_string)
(or the_string.encode('utf-8') if you prefer) if you want to pickle it.

You can select dbus.UTF8String (a str subclass), but neither String nor
UTF8String is pickleable (patches welcome).

    Simon
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