[Python-Dev] The Breaking of distutils and PyPI for Python 3000?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

>> if type(response) in (str, str):
> 
> Then I'm taking him too literally, when he writes that the tool won't 
> touch *anything* that has to do with the str->bytes/unicode->str move (I 
> assumed that meant it wouldn't touch "unicode" in the snippet I gave 
> above), right?

It definitely replaces unicode->str in this fragment.

> Will the tool also make the following work correctly?
> 
>    if type(s) is str: s = unicode(s, 'utf-8')

It outputs

if type(s) is str: s = str(s, 'utf-8')

This is probably not correct. However, in 2.6, you could write
that as

if type(s) is bytes: s = unicode(s, 'utf-8')

as bytes is str in 2.6. If you want to support even older
versions, do

try:
    bytes
except NameError:
    bytes = str

somewhere, then write the code as I proposed above.

Regards,
Martin