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From: deets@web.de (Diez B. Roggisch)
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Subject: Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:20:33 +0100
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John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> writes:

> I think that somewhere in "suds", they subclass the "unicode" type.
> That's almost too cute.
>
> The proper test is
>
> 	isinstance(s,unicode)


Woot, you finally discovered polymorphism - congratulations!

Diez