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I ran into an issue where I was supplying boolean variables in a list of unicode strings but they weren't being processed up properly by parse_boolean_function_string().

In [13]: func = parse_boolean_function_string('blah', [u'blah'])

In [14]: func
Out[14]: u'blah'

In [15]: func = parse_boolean_function_string('blah', ['blah'])

In [16]: func
Out[16]: <function psirt_utils.python_boolean.logic.<lambda>>

In [17]:

It's easy enough for me to turn the unicode strings into regular strings but is this working as designed? I wasted a bit of debugging trying to figure out what's wrong. I'm used to Python and packages not caring much about the difference between a string and a unicode string. Python thinks strings and unicode strings with the same data are equal:

In [17]: u'blah' == 'blah'
Out[17]: True

I suspect python-boolean is looking at the types and doesn't treat string and unicode the same.