request.path is a unicode string

[Thomas Güttler]

Very small documentation patch: request.path is a unicode string.

[James Bennett]

All strings, everywhere, that Django hands you as a result of HTTP or database interactions, are Unicode strings.

[Thomas Güttler]

Sorry, I think it is useful to say 'unicode string' here:

request.path is part of an URI. It could be possible, that
it is uriencoded, too.

The URL ​http://.../foo/ä/ could be

/foo/ä/ (unicode)
or /foo/%C3%BC/ in request.path.

[James Bennett]

All strings, everywhere, that Django hands you as a result of HTTP or database interactions, are Unicode strings. As such there is no need to specially call attention to one specific string and say that it's a Unicode string; the entire point of consistent use of Unicode is that you never have to ask what type of string you've got -- it's a Unicode string.