celery/celery/utils/encoding.py

import sys
import traceback


def default_encoding():
    if sys.platform.startswith("java"):
        return "utf-8"
    return sys.getfilesystemencoding()


def safe_str(s, errors="replace"):
    if not isinstance(s, basestring):
        return safe_repr(s, errors)
    return _safe_str(s, errors)


def _safe_str(s, errors="replace"):
    encoding = default_encoding()
    try:
        if isinstance(s, unicode):
            return s.encode(encoding, errors)
        return unicode(s, encoding, errors)
    except Exception, exc:
        return "<Unrepresentable %r: %r %r>" % (
                type(s), exc, "\n".join(traceback.format_stack()))


def safe_repr(o, errors="replace"):
    try:
        return repr(o)
    except Exception:
        return _safe_str(o, errors)