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4472	[unicode] Cannot coerce AnonymousUser to unicode	sacre@…	Malcolm Tredinnick	"smart_unicode and force_unciode throw !TypeError exception when calling on instance of !AnonymousUser. I got this error when trying something like this ( for model {{{Articles.authors = ManyToManyField(User)}}} ):
{{{
from django.contrib.auth import AnonyousUser
auser = AnonymousUser()
Article.objects.filter( authors__in = [auser] )
}}}
Then i got:
{{{
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, __proxy__ found
}}}
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