xoutil.eight.text - TODO

Text handling, strings can be part of internationalization processes.

See String Ambiguity in Python for more information.

New in version 1.8.0.

xoutil.eight.text.force(buffer, encoding=None)

Convert any value to standard text type in a safe way.

The standard text type is unicode in Python 2 and str in Python 3.

xoutil.eight.text.safe_join(separator, iterable, encoding=None)

Similar to join method in string objects.

The semantics is equivalent to separator.join(iterable) but forcing separator and items to be the valid instances of standard text type (unicode in Python 2 and str in Python 3).

For example:

>>> safe_join('-', range(6))
'0-1-2-3-4-5'

Check that the expression '-'.join(range(6)) raises a TypeError.

Parameters:encoding – used to allow control, but won’t be common to use it.