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Diffstat (limited to 'paste/util/quoting.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | paste/util/quoting.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/paste/util/quoting.py b/paste/util/quoting.py index cd87f2d..bd3ae0c 100644 --- a/paste/util/quoting.py +++ b/paste/util/quoting.py @@ -50,13 +50,17 @@ def html_unquote(s, encoding=None): >>> html_unquote('<hey you>') u'<hey\xa0you>' >>> html_unquote('') - '' + u'' >>> html_unquote('&blahblah;') u'&blahblah;' >>> html_unquote('\xe1\x80\xa9') u'\u1029' """ if isinstance(s, str): + if s == '': + # workaround re.sub('', '', u'') returning '' < 2.5.1 + # instead of u'' >= 2.5.1 + return u'' s = s.decode(encoding or default_encoding) return _unquote_re.sub(_entity_subber, s) |