[New-bugs-announce] [issue11315] Cookie.py breaks when passed unicode, fix included

[Alexander Tsepkov]

New submission from Alexander Tsepkov <atsepkov at gmail.com>:

in Lib/Cookie.py, BaseCookie load() method performs the following comparison on line 624:

str(rawdata) == str("")

This breaks when a unicode string is passed in for rawdata. I've included a patch that fixes this issue by using isinstance(rawdata, basestring) comparison instead. Additionally the patch encodes rawdata in ascii before sending it to __ParseString() since that method does not support unicode.

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components: Unicode
files: cookie_patch.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 129330
nosy: Alexander.Tsepkov
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Cookie.py breaks when passed unicode, fix included
versions: Python 2.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20883/cookie_patch.patch

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