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Re: Portable code: __import__ demands different string types between 2 and 3

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  Re: Portable code: __import__ demands different string types between 2 and 3 Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2014-12-15 01:39 -0600

#82553 — Re: Portable code: __import__ demands different string types between 2 and 3

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> How can I get that ‘__import__’ call, complete with its ‘fromlist’
> parameter, working correctly under both Python 2 and Python 3, keeping
> the ‘unicode_literals’ setting?

How about "str('bar')"?

> If some kind of kludge is needed to make it work between versions, is
> this a bug which should be fixed so “use Unicode for text” remains
> applicable advice?

Fixed in which version?  The problem is that Python 2 mixes the
notions of strings and bytestrings, and the solution is Python 3.

I believe six also has a "give me a native string" function to help with this.

-- 
Zach

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