Unwanted conversion of strings to Unicode

[adamw@…]

Genshi transforms str strings inside templates into unicode. See the following example:

import genshi, datetime
s = '''<p xmlns:py="http://genshi.edgewall.org/" py:content="d.strftime('%d-%m-%Y')"></p>'''
print genshi.template.MarkupTemplate(s).generate(d=datetime.datetime.now())

yields

TypeError: strftime() argument 1 must be str, not unicode

This appears to be a limitation of strftime, not taking a basestring, however genshi has silently convereted a standard string passed in ('%d-%m-Y') into unicode (u'%d-%m-%Y').

The following however works, but is undesirable

import genshi, datetime
s = '''<p xmlns:py="http://genshi.edgewall.org/" py:content="d.strftime(str('%d-%m-%Y'))"></p>'''
print genshi.template.MarkupTemplate(s).generate(d=datetime.datetime.now())

[cmlenz]

This is actually already fixed in trunk, by [437]. Only strings that aren't ASCII are changed to unicode objects.