Function getText

lib/core/convert.py:383–404

Returns textual value of a given value (Note: not necessary Unicode on Python2) >>> getText(b"foobar") 'foobar' >>> isinstance(getText(u"fo\\u2299bar"), six.text_type) True

(value, encoding=None)

            return six.text_type(str(value), errors="ignore")  # encoding ignored for non-basestring instances

def getText(value, encoding=None):
    """
    Returns textual value of a given value (Note: not necessary Unicode on Python2)

    >>> getText(b"foobar")
    'foobar'
    >>> isinstance(getText(u"fo\\u2299bar"), six.text_type)
    True
    """

    retVal = value

    if isinstance(value, six.binary_type):
        retVal = getUnicode(value, encoding)

    if six.PY2:
        try:
            retVal = str(retVal)
        except:
            pass

    return retVal

def stdoutEncode(value):
    """