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[Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

> I'm now using a dirty walkaround:
>
> def send_message(self, topic, message):
>             if type(message) == unicode:
>                 message = str(message).encode('string_escape')
>             result, some_number = Client.mc.publish(topic, message)

mosquitto.py does actually support python 2.7 unicode data types later
down the line, it just rejects them at the publish() call by mistake.
For both python 2.7 and python 3, the _send_publish() function calls
message.encode('utf-8') to encode as utf-8. If you want to use a
different encoding just call message.encode('.....') before passing it
to the publish() call.

Cheers,

Roger