AutoEscaping change breaks python 2.3.5 compatability due to use of decode function on unicode objects

[Free Neuron <freeneuron+django@…>]

​http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/utils/safestring.py?rev=6671

File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/django/utils/safestring.py", line 92, in SafeUnicode

decode = curry(_proxy_method, method = unicode.decode)

AttributeError: type object 'unicode' has no attribute 'decode'

Under python 2.3.5 u"a".decode("rot13") throws, under 2.4 it succeeds.

[Free Neuron <freeneuron+django@…>]

Python 2.3.5 (#1, Aug 19 2006, 21:31:42)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin
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u"asdf".decode("rot13")

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?

AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'decode'

[anonymous]

Confirmed same behavior, SVN, RHEL 4, Python 2.3.4
Fixed by reverting to 0.96.1

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

What do I have to do to trigger this problem in Django? It's not immediately clear how we're getting to that code path, so a short example of how to repeat the bug is necessary.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

Ignore comment 3. I worked it out (things fail just trying to start up when you run the tests).

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

(In [6685]) Fixed #5960 -- Fixed some Python 2.3 incompatibilities.