Opened 17 years ago
Last modified 16 years ago
#6833 closed
Leaving the u off a string returned from __unicode__ results in horribly hard to debug bugs — at Version 1
| Reported by: | Simon Willison | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | contrib.admin | Version: | dev |
| Severity: | Keywords: | ||
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Design decision needed | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description (last modified by )
I hit a nasty bug where weird unicode errors were being thrown in the admin application, which it turned out was caused because I was returning a bytestring from a __unicode__ method. It would be great if Django could spot this mistake and throw a more humanly readable exception. This might just involve a few assertions in the admin code.
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