Supporting Python 2/3 and Unicode

Python6Unicode.md

Python 2/3 Unicode

Basic Rules

• Use six
• Use six.u() everywhere you expose a Unicode/String API (anything that is meant for Humans!)
• Use six.text_type() in place of unicode()
• Implement the following "Python special methods":

import sys


# True if we are running on Python 3.
PY3 = sys.version_info[0] == 3


from six import text_typu


class Thing(object)

    def __init__(self, name, encodig="utf-8"):
        self.name = name
        self.encoding = encoding
        
    def __str__(self):
        return self.__unicode__() if PY3 else self.__bytes__()

    def __bytes__(self):
        return text_type(self).encode(self.encoding)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return u("{0}".format(self.name))

    def __repr__(self):
        return repr(text_type(self))

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