[jira] [Assigned] (THRIFT-3503) Enable py:utf8string by default

["Aki Sukegawa (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-3503?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Aki Sukegawa reassigned THRIFT-3503:
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    Assignee: Aki Sukegawa

> Enable py:utf8string by default
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>                 Key: THRIFT-3503
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-3503
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Python - Compiler
>            Reporter: Aki Sukegawa
>            Assignee: Aki Sukegawa
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> In python 2 and python 3, string and unicode is handled in very different ways.
> py3: {{str}} is unicode (no such type), it is not {{bytes}}.
> py2: {{str}} is not {{unicode}}, it is (aliased by) {{bytes}}.
> Because of this, while Thrift RPC API handles them as {{str}} for both cases, it is unicode for python3 users but {{bytes}} for python2 users.
> So a user who starts using Thrift + python2 is likely to write code that passes bytes to Thrift API.
> The code is broken when she/he wants to use the code with Thrift + python3.
> We should avoid this by changing this now before the first release of Thrift + Python3.



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