[Python-Dev] Re: [Patches] Patch for xmlrpc encoding

[Brian Quinlan]

> > There isn't a reason to assume that strings use any other encoding,
> > either.
> 
> Isn't that what sys.{get,set}defaultencoding is for?

If that is all you want to support, then:

def dump_string(self, value, escape=escape):
    if unicode:
        self.dump_unicode(unicode(value), escape)
    else:
        self.write("<value><string>%s</string></value>\n" 
		% escape(value))

dispatch[StringType] = dump_string

If you have changed the default encoding (not recommended) then
everything should work fine.

> So perhaps it would be better to change the postgresql-modules to
return
> unicode-objects instead of strings?

Maybe. 

Cheers,
Brian