From bdb3901001fbf8a4cb68da75cd05ad12f79efd03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:11:17 +0000
Subject: [Bug #1164912] Ensure Datetime wrapper class .value attribute is an
 8-bit string, not a Unicode string

---
 Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py | 10 ++++++++++
 Lib/xmlrpclib.py        |  1 +
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
index ed4c6d1..0ef91dc 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
@@ -76,6 +76,16 @@ class XMLRPCTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         (newdt,), m = xmlrpclib.loads(s, use_datetime=0)
         self.assertEquals(newdt, xmlrpclib.DateTime('%sT11:41:23'%today))
 
+    def test_bug_1164912 (self):
+        d = xmlrpclib.DateTime()
+        ((new_d,), dummy) = xmlrpclib.loads(xmlrpclib.dumps((d,), 
+                                            methodresponse=True))
+        self.assert_(isinstance(new_d.value, str))
+
+        # Check that the output of dumps() is still an 8-bit string
+        s = xmlrpclib.dumps((new_d,), methodresponse=True)
+        self.assert_(isinstance(s, str))
+
     def test_dump_big_long(self):
         self.assertRaises(OverflowError, xmlrpclib.dumps, (2L**99,))
 
diff --git a/Lib/xmlrpclib.py b/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
index 069ebcc..6fb6c68 100644
--- a/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
+++ b/Lib/xmlrpclib.py
@@ -388,6 +388,7 @@ class DateTime:
         return "<DateTime %s at %x>" % (repr(self.value), id(self))
 
     def decode(self, data):
+        data = str(data)
         self.value = string.strip(data)
 
     def encode(self, out):
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