X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=bindings%2Fpython%2Fnotmuch%2Fglobals.py;h=c7632c3266d428cc42ee43c652701df13c7364dd;hb=d99f15d7ee38d606a2b3b5bd34f1e6c787b3b8a2;hp=f5fad72aa4edf638f98b2508e0bce501fd2a9e55;hpb=7bf5be75ae8e3c2d4e8c06bba8b44f4fd495349b;p=notmuch

diff --git a/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py b/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py
index f5fad72a..c7632c32 100644
--- a/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py
+++ b/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ along with notmuch.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 Copyright 2010 Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
 """
-import sys
+
 from ctypes import CDLL, Structure, POINTER
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -26,38 +26,7 @@ try:
 except:
     raise ImportError("Could not find shared 'notmuch' library.")
 
-
-if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
-    class Python3StringMixIn(object):
-        def __str__(self):
-            return unicode(self).encode('utf-8')
-
-
-    def _str(value):
-        """Ensure a nicely utf-8 encoded string to pass to libnotmuch
-
-        C++ code expects strings to be well formatted and
-        unicode strings to have no null bytes."""
-        if not isinstance(value, basestring):
-            raise TypeError("Expected str or unicode, got %s" % type(value))
-        if isinstance(value, unicode):
-            return value.encode('UTF-8')
-        return value
-else:
-    class Python3StringMixIn(object):
-        def __str__(self):
-            return self.__unicode__()
-
-
-    def _str(value):
-        """Ensure a nicely utf-8 encoded string to pass to libnotmuch
-
-        C++ code expects strings to be well formatted and
-        unicode strings to have no null bytes."""
-        if not isinstance(value, str):
-            raise TypeError("Expected str, got %s" % type(value))
-        return value.encode('UTF-8')
-
+from .compat import Python3StringMixIn, encode_utf8 as _str
 
 class Enum(object):
     """Provides ENUMS as "code=Enum(['a','b','c'])" where code.a=0 etc..."""