[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #346: Python 3 support

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#346: Python 3 support
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 Reporter:  olly                      |             Owner:  richard
     Type:  defect                    |            Status:  assigned
 Priority:  highest                   |         Milestone:  1.3.2
Component:  Xapian-bindings (Python)  |           Version:  SVN trunk
 Severity:  normal                    |        Resolution:
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 Blocking:                            |  Operating System:  All
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Comment (by richard):

 After reviewing this discussion and thinking for a bit, I think the only
 safeish option for input is to accept both bytes and str, and
 automatically encode str as utf8.  The sole exception would be for
 sortable_unserialise(), which should error if given a str.

 For ease of explanation, implementation, and to avoid having to maintain
 lots of custom wrappers, I think all return values should be bytes.  We
 should simply document this, and people can do ".decode('utf8')" for those
 return values where they expect that to work; eg, they can do this for a
 returned term if they're only storing UTF8 term values in the database.
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