[PROTON-2119] [Python] Change API to better handle strings where symbols are required

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: proton-c-0.29.0
• Fix Version/s: proton-c-0.30.0
• Component/s: python-binding
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kim van der Riet
• Created: 14/Oct/19 21:02
• Updated: 14/May/20 10:00
• Resolved: 14/May/20 10:00

Description

There are places in the Python API where the AMQP 1.0 specification requires symbols, but the API accepts strings (and in come cases any type). Change the API to better handle cases where strings are accepted so as to silently "upgrade" them to symbols.