windows: prevent bytes from being passed to registry APIs
There was a TortoiseHg bug report in this area[1], and from inspection, it looks
like passing `b""` as `valname` would fail to convert to unicode. The
underlying API allows both `""` and `NULL` to return the default value for the
key.
[1] https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg/thg/-/issues/5803
"""
Commonly useful converters.
"""
from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
def optional(converter):
"""
A converter that allows an attribute to be optional. An optional attribute
is one which can be set to ``None``.
:param callable converter: the converter that is used for non-``None``
values.
.. versionadded:: 17.1.0
"""
def optional_converter(val):
if val is None:
return None
return converter(val)
return optional_converter