id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 16494 HttpResponse should raise an error if given a non-string object without `__iter__` matt@… Paul McMillan "where response = {{{ }}} and response._container = {{{ [Hello Friend] }}} Content type = text/xml {{{#!python matt@dragoon:~/Projects/my_project$ python manage.py test my_app Creating test database for alias 'default'... ====================================================================== ERROR: test_hello (my_app.tests.RestTestCase) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- print response Traceback (most recent call last): File ""/Users/matt/Projects/my_project/my_app/tests.py"", line 22, in test_hello print result.content File ""/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/http/__init__.py"", line 596, in _get_content return smart_str(''.join(self._container), self._charset) TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, Response found ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 1 test in 3.177s FAILED (errors=1) Destroying test database for alias 'default'... }}} The following patch corrected the issue for me {{{ django/http/__init__.py 593,595c593 < def _get_content(self): if self.has_header('Content-Encoding'): < return ''.join(self._container) < return smart_str(''.join(self._container), self._charset) --- > def _get_content(self): }}}" Bug closed HTTP handling 1.3 Normal fixed anssi.kaariainen@… Accepted 1 0 0 0 0 0