Re: Problem with unicode in form posts

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Lee Hinde <leehinde@gmail.com> wrote:
> Except, now the data that's in the database for the username field
> goes from looking like this:
> leehinde
> to this
> (u'leehinde',)
>
> I'd like it to be 'leehinde' again
> so, clearly objects.create is more clever than my pure post. But I'm
> not sure where in the food chain I should be interceding..
>

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/unicode/#general-string-handling

"""
In most cases when Django is dealing with strings, it will convert
them to Unicode strings before doing anything else. So, as a general
rule, if you pass in a bytestring, be prepared to receive a Unicode
string back in the result.
"""

Be prepared :)

Cheers

Tom

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