BinaryField returns str not unicode

2010-04-17 21:24:06 +01:00
parent 3c7e8be2e7
commit edfda6ad5b
2 changed files with 4 additions and 3 deletions
--- a/mongoengine/fields.py
+++ b/mongoengine/fields.py
@@ -505,10 +505,11 @@ class BinaryField(BaseField):
        return pymongo.binary.Binary(value)

    def to_python(self, value):
-        return unicode(value)
+        # Returns str not unicode as this is binary data
+        return str(value)

    def validate(self, value):
        assert isinstance(value, str)

        if self.max_bytes is not None and len(value) > self.max_bytes:
-            raise ValidationError('Binary value is too long')
+            raise ValidationError('Binary value is too long')