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6884	Deserialization in loaddata causes a TypeError	dfrishberg	nobody	"line 181, django/core/serializers/xml_serializer.py:
        {{{return base.DeserializedObject(Model(**data), m2m_data)}}}

Python functions cannot accept unicode kwargs, so when {{{data}}} has unicode keywords a {{{TypeError}}} is thrown by this line. Recommend enforcing that all dicts passed to constructors with this syntax are normalized to string keys.

Error occurred when the deserializer somehow turned the xml below into the dict below:

{{{
<object pk=""1"" model=""scorecard.committeeassignment"">
        <field type=""IntegerField"" name=""pid"">158699</field>
        <field to=""scorecard.official"" name=""official"" rel=""ManyToOneRel"">Office object</field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""comcode1"">HCAUC015</field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode11""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode12""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode13""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode14""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode15""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""comcode2"">HCAUC075</field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode21""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode22""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode23""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode24""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode25""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""comcode3"">HCAUC220</field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode31""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode32""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode33""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode34""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode35""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""comcode4"">HNRES</field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode41"">HNRES05</field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode42"">HNRES10</field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode43"">HNRES15</field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode44"">HNRES20</field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode45"">HNRES25</field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""comcode5"">HTRA</field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode51"">HTRA10</field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode52"">HTRA20</field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode53""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode54""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""subcode55""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""comcode6"">JCAUC031</field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""comcode7"">JCAUC033</field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""comcode8""><None></None></field>
        <field type=""CharField"" name=""comcode9""><None></None></field>
    </object>
{'pid': u'158699', u'comcode6': u'JCAUC031', u'comcode7': u'JCAUC033', 'id': 1, u'subcode52': u'HTRA20', u'subcode51': u'HTRA10', u'subcode13': None, u'subcode12': None, u'subcode11': None, u'subcode15': None, u'subcode14': None, u'subcode35': None, u'subcode34': None, u'subcode31': None, u'subcode33': None, u'subcode32': None, u'comcode4': u'HNRES', u'comcode5': u'HTRA', u'subcode55': None, u'subcode54': None, u'subcode53': None, u'comcode1': u'HCAUC015', u'comcode2': u'HCAUC075', u'comcode3': u'HCAUC220', u'comcode8': None, u'comcode9': None, 'official_id': u'Office object', u'subcode42': u'HNRES10', u'subcode43': u'HNRES15', u'subcode44': u'HNRES20', u'subcode45': u'HNRES25', u'subcode41': u'HNRES05', u'subcode24': None, u'subcode25': None, u'subcode22': None, u'subcode23': None, u'subcode21': None}
}}}"		closed	Core (Serialization)	dev		invalid			Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0