diff mercurial/config.py @ 31315:c920efa9d34b

config: guard against setconfig specifying unicode values on py3 This was leading to some difficult to trace problems because the values were set in one place, but then blew up much later in the program. Exploding violently with an assertion seems reasonable here.
author Augie Fackler <raf@durin42.com>
date Fri, 03 Mar 2017 14:42:56 -0500
parents 99c5843b228d
children d30fb3de4b40
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--- a/mercurial/config.py	Fri Mar 03 14:43:27 2017 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/config.py	Fri Mar 03 14:42:56 2017 -0500
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 from .i18n import _
 from . import (
     error,
+    pycompat,
     util,
 )
 
@@ -69,6 +70,9 @@
     def items(self, section):
         return self._data.get(section, {}).items()
     def set(self, section, item, value, source=""):
+        if pycompat.ispy3:
+            assert not isinstance(value, str), (
+                'config values may not be unicode strings on Python 3')
         if section not in self:
             self._data[section] = util.sortdict()
         self._data[section][item] = value