unicode-nazi 1.1

// The Unicode Nazi //

Once enabled the unicode nazi will complain whenever something is not purely unicode or bytestring. It’s annoying as hell and only useful when porting over libraries from Python 2 to Python 3. It has a huge runtime impact on performance and will also complain about most of the stuff in the Python standard library.

• usage:

  >>> import unicodenazi
  >>> 'foo' == u'foo'
  __main__:1: UnicodeWarning: Implicit conversion of str to unicode
  True
  

• how to disable it again:

  >>> unicodenazi.disable()
  

• and here is how to enable:

  >>> unicodenazi.enable()
  

• if you want to enable it only for a given block:

  >>> unicodenazi.disable()
  >>> with unicodenazi.blockwise(enabled=True):
  ...  assert 'foo' == u'foo'
  ...
  __main__:2: UnicodeWarning: Implicit conversion of str to unicode
  

  The reverse works too of course.

The module can be used from a command line:

$ python -municodenazi your_script.py [script_args..]