Function getBytes

lib/core/convert.py:280–317

Returns byte representation of provided Unicode value >>> getBytes(u"foo\\\\x01\\\\x83\\\\xffbar") == b"foo\\x01\\x83\\xffbar" True

(value, encoding=None, errors="strict", unsafe=True)

    return retVal

def getBytes(value, encoding=None, errors="strict", unsafe=True):
    """
    Returns byte representation of provided Unicode value

    >>> getBytes(u"foo\\\\x01\\\\x83\\\\xffbar") == b"foo\\x01\\x83\\xffbar"
    True
    """

    retVal = value

    if encoding is None:
        encoding = conf.get("encoding") or UNICODE_ENCODING

    try:
        codecs.lookup(encoding)
    except (LookupError, TypeError):
        encoding = UNICODE_ENCODING

    if isinstance(value, six.text_type):
        if INVALID_UNICODE_PRIVATE_AREA:
            if unsafe:
                for char in xrange(0xF0000, 0xF00FF + 1):
                    value = value.replace(_unichr(char), "%s%02x" % (SAFE_HEX_MARKER, char - 0xF0000))

            retVal = value.encode(encoding, errors)

            if unsafe:
                retVal = re.sub((r"%s([0-9a-f]{2})" % SAFE_HEX_MARKER).encode(), lambda _: decodeHex(_.group(1)), retVal)
        else:
            try:
                retVal = value.encode(encoding, errors)
            except UnicodeError:
                retVal = value.encode(UNICODE_ENCODING, errors="replace")

            if unsafe:
                retVal = re.sub(b"\\\\x([0-9a-f]{2})", lambda _: decodeHex(_.group(1)), retVal)

    return retVal

def getOrds(value):
    """