Bug#561805: python-debian: Please implement __unicode__() for Changelog (and ChangeBlock)

[Michael Bienia]

Package: python-debian
Version: 0.1.14
Severity: wishlist

Please implement __unicode__() for Changelog and ChangeBlock to be able
to convert a changelog or a block into a unicode string.

>>> from debian_bundle.changelog import Changelog
>>> c = Changelog(open('changelog.txt', 'r'))
>>> unicode(c)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 220: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> unicode(c._blocks[1])
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 62: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> str(c._blocks[1])
'haskell-src-exts (1.1.4-1) unstable; urgency=low\n\n\n  [ Marco T\xc3\xbalio Gontijo e Silva ]\n\n  * debian/control: Use one package for line in dependencies.\n\n  * debian/rules: Make build depend only in build-arch to avoid building\n\n    indep packages in all architectures.\n\n  * debian/control: Use more sintetic name for Vcs-Darcs.\n\n\n\n  [ Joachim Breitner ]\n\n  * New upstream version \n\n  * Put haddoc et. al. into Build-Depends\n\n  * Bump standards version\n\n\n\n -- Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org>  Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:13:15 +0200\n\n\n\n'

A work-around for now is:
>>> unicode(str(c._blocks[1]).decode('utf-8'))
>>> unicode(str(c).decode('utf-8'))

The used changelog is
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/h/haskell-src-exts/current/changelog.txt


Thanks,
Michael