[XML-SIG] Strings or Unicode ?

[Martin v. Loewis]

> In a nutshell this means "return unicode unless it's convertible to 
> latin-1, then return a latin1-encoded bytestring". I wonder if that is 
> exactly what you said above, or only very similar.

No. If it is a Latin-1 string containing accented characters, it
should be converted to Unicode. Otherwise, suppose somebody does

result = u"<"+elem.nodeName

it will give a UnicodeError. OTOH, if you only create byte strings if
the string is ASCII, combining it with either byte strings or Unicode
strings will succeed.

Regards,
Martin