1 files changed, 22 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py b/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py
index 32ed9ae4..41384604 100644
--- a/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py
+++ b/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py
@@ -31,12 +31,34 @@ if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
     class Python3StringMixIn(object):
         def __str__(self):
             return unicode(self).encode('utf-8')
+
+
+    def _str(value):
+        """Ensure a nicely utf-8 encoded string to pass to libnotmuch
+
+        C++ code expects strings to be well formatted and
+        unicode strings to have no null bytes."""
+        if not isinstance(value, basestring):
+            raise TypeError("Expected str or unicode, got %s" % type(value))
+        if isinstance(value, unicode):
+            return value.encode('UTF-8')
+        return value
 else:
     class Python3StringMixIn(object):
         def __str__(self):
             return self.__unicode__()
 
 
+    def _str(value):
+        """Ensure a nicely utf-8 encoded string to pass to libnotmuch
+
+        C++ code expects strings to be well formatted and
+        unicode strings to have no null bytes."""
+        if not isinstance(value, str):
+            raise TypeError("Expected str, got %s" % type(value))
+        return value.encode('UTF-8')
+
+
 class Enum(object):
     """Provides ENUMS as "code=Enum(['a','b','c'])" where code.a=0 etc..."""
     def __init__(self, names):
@@ -202,18 +224,6 @@ class NotInitializedError(NotmuchError):
     status = STATUS.NOT_INITIALIZED
 
 
-def _str(value):
-    """Ensure a nicely utf-8 encoded string to pass to libnotmuch
-
-    C++ code expects strings to be well formatted and
-    unicode strings to have no null bytes."""
-    if not isinstance(value, basestring):
-        raise TypeError("Expected str or unicode, got %s" % str(type(value)))
-    if isinstance(value, unicode):
-        return value.encode('UTF-8')
-    return value
-
-
 class NotmuchDatabaseS(Structure):
     pass
 NotmuchDatabaseP = POINTER(NotmuchDatabaseS)