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  r68805 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-20 08:21:16 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  allow unicode keyword arguments for the ** syntax #4978
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Lib/test/test_extcall.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 """Doctest for method/function calls.
 
 We're going the use these types for extra testing
@@ -252,11 +253,30 @@ TypeError if te dictionary is not empty
 
 """
 
+import unittest
 from test import test_support
 
+
+class UnicodeKeywordArgsTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_unicode_keywords(self):
+        def f(a):
+            return a
+        self.assertEqual(f(**{u'a': 4}), 4)
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, f, **{u'stören': 4})
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, f, **{u'someLongString':2})
+        try:
+            f(a=4, **{u'a': 4})
+        except TypeError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            self.fail("duplicate arguments didn't raise")
+
+
 def test_main():
     from test import test_extcall # self import
     test_support.run_doctest(test_extcall, True)
+    test_support.run_unittest(UnicodeKeywordArgsTest)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     test_main()

Misc/NEWS

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ Core and Builtins
   library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash
   the interpreter.  Patch by Stefan Krah.
 
+- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
+
 - Issue #7819: Check sys.call_tracing() arguments types.
 
 - Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list

Python/ceval.c

@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ static void reset_exc_info(PyThreadState *);
 static void format_exc_check_arg(PyObject *, char *, PyObject *);
 static PyObject * string_concatenate(PyObject *, PyObject *,
 				    PyFrameObject *, unsigned char *);
+static PyObject * kwd_as_string(PyObject *);
 
 #define NAME_ERROR_MSG \
 	"name '%.200s' is not defined"
@@ -2831,7 +2832,8 @@ PyEval_EvalCodeEx(PyCodeObject *co, PyObject *globals, PyObject *locals,
 			PyObject *keyword = kws[2*i];
 			PyObject *value = kws[2*i + 1];
 			int j;
-			if (keyword == NULL || !PyString_Check(keyword)) {
+			if (keyword == NULL || !(PyString_Check(keyword) ||
+						 PyUnicode_Check(keyword))) {
 				PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
 				    "%.200s() keywords must be strings",
 				    PyString_AsString(co->co_name));
@@ -2860,11 +2862,15 @@ PyEval_EvalCodeEx(PyCodeObject *co, PyObject *globals, PyObject *locals,
 				goto fail;
 			if (j >= co->co_argcount) {
 				if (kwdict == NULL) {
+					PyObject *kwd_str = kwd_as_string(keyword);
+					if (kwd_str) {
 						PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
 							     "%.200s() got an unexpected "
 							     "keyword argument '%.400s'",
 							     PyString_AsString(co->co_name),
-					    PyString_AsString(keyword));
+							     PyString_AsString(kwd_str));
+						Py_DECREF(kwd_str);
+					}
 					goto fail;
 				}
 				PyDict_SetItem(kwdict, keyword, value);
@@ -2872,12 +2878,16 @@ PyEval_EvalCodeEx(PyCodeObject *co, PyObject *globals, PyObject *locals,
 			}
 kw_found:
 			if (GETLOCAL(j) != NULL) {
+				PyObject *kwd_str = kwd_as_string(keyword);
+				if (kwd_str) {
 					PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
 						     "%.200s() got multiple "
 						     "values for keyword "
 						     "argument '%.400s'",
 						     PyString_AsString(co->co_name),
-						PyString_AsString(keyword));
+						     PyString_AsString(kwd_str));
+					Py_DECREF(kwd_str);
+				}
 				goto fail;
 			}
 			Py_INCREF(value);
@@ -3004,6 +3014,17 @@ fail: /* Jump here from prelude on failure */
 }
 
 
+static PyObject *
+kwd_as_string(PyObject *kwd) {
+	if (PyString_Check(kwd)) {
+		Py_INCREF(kwd);
+		return kwd;
+	}
+	else
+		return _PyUnicode_AsDefaultEncodedString(kwd, "replace");
+}
+
+
 /* Implementation notes for set_exc_info() and reset_exc_info():
 
 - Below, 'exc_ZZZ' stands for 'exc_type', 'exc_value' and