[New-bugs-announce] [issue2212] Cookie.BaseCookie has ambiguous unicode handling

[Jamie Bliss]

New submission from Jamie Bliss:

The primary offender is in BaseCookie.load(), which uses the test:
    type(rawdata) == type("")
which should be:
    isinstance(rawdata, basestring)

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 63145
nosy: astronouth7303
severity: normal
status: open
title: Cookie.BaseCookie has ambiguous unicode handling
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6

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