Function to_native_string

src/requests/_internal_utils.py:26–36

Given a string object, regardless of type, returns a representation of that string in the native string type, encoding and decoding where necessary. This assumes ASCII unless told otherwise.

(string: str | bytes, encoding: str = "ascii")

def to_native_string(string: str | bytes, encoding: str = "ascii") -> str:
    """Given a string object, regardless of type, returns a representation of
    that string in the native string type, encoding and decoding where
    necessary. This assumes ASCII unless told otherwise.
    """
    if isinstance(string, builtin_str):
        out = string
    else:
        out = string.decode(encoding)

    return out


def unicode_is_ascii(u_string: str) -> bool: