clean up and fix docstring serialisation (some are const, some are not)

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Cython/Compiler/StringEncoding.py b/Cython/Compiler/StringEncoding.py
index 5c1a85576..ccc66694d 100644
--- a/Cython/Compiler/StringEncoding.py
+++ b/Cython/Compiler/StringEncoding.py
@@ -136,6 +136,9 @@ class EncodedString(_unicode):
     def contains_surrogates(self):
         return string_contains_surrogates(self)
 
+    def as_utf8_string(self):
+        return BytesLiteral(self.utf8encode())
+
 
 def string_contains_surrogates(ustring):
     """
@@ -177,6 +180,10 @@ class BytesLiteral(_bytes):
 
     is_unicode = False
 
+    def as_c_string_literal(self):
+        value = split_string_literal(escape_byte_string(self))
+        return '"%s"' % value
+
 
 char_from_escape_sequence = {
     r'\a' : u'\a',