Cannot get db_info from a document with unicode in the id

[jcounts]

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Bug Description

1. Steps to reproduce and the simplest code sample possible to demonstrate the issue

The following (where user and password are assumed to be correctly defined):

with cloudant(
    user,
    password,
    account='someuseraccount'
) as client:
    db = client['somedatabase']
    ddoc = db[u'\u05de\u05d2\u05d9\u05e2(\u05d4)']
    pprint.pprint(ddoc.info())

2. What you expected to happen

Results of ddoc.info() should be returned.

3. What actually happened

KeyError: u'\u05de' is raised.

Environment details

• Version(s) that are affected by this issue.

  2.9.0

• Python version

  2.7.15

[smithsz]

Can you please try passing the Python string version instead? i.e.

ddoc = db[u'_design/\u05de\u05d2\u05d9\u05e2(\u05d4)'.encode('utf-8')]

Let me know how you get on.

[jcounts]

Using encode works.

We are planning on moving to python3 soon, I recall reading that there are some issues converting encode/decode from 2 to 3. Do you have any advice on a way to try and future proof this?

[smithsz]

I'm afraid not. You'll need to adapt your code when moving to Py3 since calling encode on a str will give you the new byte type, not a str.

Please reopen if you have any further questions.