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Author	ezio.melotti
Recipients	ezio.melotti, srid
Date	2010-03-14.07:18:43
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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Here is a proof of concept that solves the problem for unicode strings and startswith/endswith. If during the conversion to Unicode a TypeError is raised (e.g. TypeError: Can't convert 'list' object to str implicitly), the error message is changed to "TypeError: startswith first arg must be str, unicode, or tuple, not list". If the error is not a TypeError (e.g. a UnicodeDecodeError) the behavior is unchanged. I haven't tested the patch thoroughly, but if this approach is OK I will prepare a complete patch.

Here is a proof of concept that solves the problem for unicode strings and startswith/endswith.
If during the conversion to Unicode a TypeError is raised (e.g. TypeError: Can't convert 'list' object to str implicitly), the error message is changed to "TypeError: startswith first arg must be str, unicode, or tuple, not list".
If the error is not a TypeError (e.g. a UnicodeDecodeError) the behavior is unchanged.
I haven't tested the patch thoroughly, but if this approach is OK I will prepare a complete patch.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-03-14 07:18:47	ezio.melotti	set	recipients: + ezio.melotti, srid
2010-03-14 07:18:46	ezio.melotti	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2010-03-14 07:18:45	ezio.melotti	link	issue6780 messages
2010-03-14 07:18:44	ezio.melotti	create