toPython() for URIRef and BNode · Issue #174 · RDFLib/rdflib (original) (raw)

bernhard...@gmail.com, 2011-09-11T09:48:45.000Z

It is quite common for us to take property values from an RDF graph and do further things with them in native python data structures. I wonder why there is no toPython() method for URIRef and BNode objects -- it would be very convenient if we could just call toPython() and do not care what the underlying RDF node actually is. Currently we have to check if it's actually a Literal before calling toPython().

For URIRef the implementation is straightforward -- it should return the reference itself:

def toPython(): return unicode(self)

Not sure about BNode, though.