wand.compat — Compatibility layer

This module provides several encoding-related utilities.

wand.compat.binary(string, var=None)

Makes string to bytes.

Parameters:

  • string (bytes, str, unicode) – a string to cast it to bytes

  • var (str) – an optional variable name to be used for error message

wand.compat.encode_filename(filename)

If filename is a text_type, encode it to bytes according to filesystem’s default encoding.

Changed in version 0.5.3: Added support for PEP-519 https://github.com/emcconville/wand/pull/339

wand.compat.to_bytes(value, string_pattern='{0}')

Short-cut method to allow mixed value types to be converted to bytes.

Parameters:

  • value (basestring, int, float) – Value to be cast to bytes

  • string_pattern (basestring) – String format to allow printf style control of bytes output.

New in version 0.6.4.