Module cim_types

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Types to represent CIM typed values, and related conversion functions.

The following table shows how CIM typed values are represented as Python objects:

(1) CIM string and char16 types are represented as follows: In Python 2 as unicode (preferred) or str; in Python 3 as str (preferred) or bytes. The implementation may decode binary bytes types offered at the interface to unicode text types in the internal representation, using "utf-8" encoding.

Note that constructors of PyWBEM classes that take CIM typed values as input may support Python types in addition to those shown above. For example, the CIMProperty class represents CIM datetime values internally as a CIMDateTime object, but its constructor accepts datetime.timedelta, datetime.datetime, str, and unicode (py2 only) objects in addition to CIMDateTime objects.