Can't store strings with apostrophes in the datastore

[bwa...@gmail.com]

I'm using GAE's Youtube API to retrieve video info. When either the
title or description contains an apostrophe, it gets cut off. For
example, if the title of the the video is "You'll love this", the only
thing that gets put in the datastore is "You". I've looked over all my
code and I can't figure out where this is happening. I guess my
question is, is this a known issue with GAE or the Youtube API?

[Brandon Wirtz]

Are you escaping them?

Have you considered bytestrings?

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[bwa...@gmail.com]

I'm not escaping them. Is there a function that can do this for me?

I didn't know about bytestrings. I'll look them up.

Thanks!

On Dec 5, 10:42 pm, "Brandon Wirtz" <drak...@digerat.com> wrote:
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> I'm using GAE's Youtube API to retrieve video info. When either the title or

> description contains anapostrophe, it gets cut off. For example, if the

[bwa...@gmail.com]

I tried escaping my string as well as using a bytestring instead of a
string but neither worked. Is there any way to fix this?

[Tim Hoffman]

HI

I store apostrophe's in the datastore all the time.

You should first check the strings as you get it out of Youtube. 

Log them, or try intreractively through the interpreter without appengine in the way, or use pdb, then

set breakpoints all the way to just before you put the record and see if you still have the full string.

Rgds

Tim

[Brandon Wirtz]

ByteString should store anything you want.   I have had issues with Unitype Strings and non-unitype characters.

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