rbtools.utils.encoding¶

Utilities for managing string types and encoding.

Functions

rbtools.utils.encoding.force_bytes(string: Union[bytes, str], encoding: str = 'utf-8') → bytes[source]¶

Force a given string to be a bytes type.

Parameters:

string (bytes or str) – The string to enforce.

Returns:

The string as a byte string.

Return type:

bytes

Raises:

ValueError – The given string was not a supported type.

rbtools.utils.encoding.force_unicode(string: Union[bytes, str], encoding: str = 'utf-8') → str[source]¶

Force a given string to be a Unicode string type.

Parameters:

string (bytes or str) – The string to enforce.

Returns:

The string as a unicode type.

Return type:

str

Raises:

ValueError – The given string was not a supported type.