Error when trying to view the contents of a binary string in the Variable Explorer for Python 2

[ccordoba12]

If you evaluate this code in Python 2

import string
dig_its = string.digits;
translate_digits = string.maketrans(dig_its,len(dig_its)*' ')

and then do a double-click on the variable called translate_digits in the Variable Explorer, you get this error in the internal console

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/carlos/Projects/spyder/github-repo/spyder/widgets/variableexplorer/collectionseditor.py", line 483, in createEditor
    editor = TextEditor(value, key)
  File "/home/carlos/Projects/spyder/github-repo/spyder/widgets/variableexplorer/texteditor.py", line 44, in __init__
    text = to_text_string(text, 'utf8')
  File "/home/carlos/Projects/spyder/github-repo/spyder/py3compat.py", line 137, in to_text_string
    return unicode(obj, encoding)
  File "/home/carlos/.virtualenvs/test-ipy-stable/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 128: invalid start byte

i think the solution is if we fail to initialize TextEditor, then we shouldn't show it.

@mariacamilaremolinagutierrez, DataFrameEditor has a method called setup_and_check, for you to look at. TextEditor should have a similar method to use it as DataFrameEditor.setup_and_check is also used.

[ccordoba12]

@mariacamilaremolinagutierrez, this is your last issue for 3.1, so please try to finish it this week.

Then you can start to work on your project.