Backing out changes originating from pybind#2392.

include/pybind11/pytypes.h

@@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ class str : public object {
         Return a string representation of the object. This is analogous to
         the ``str()`` function in Python.
     \endrst */
-    explicit str(handle h) : object(raw_str(h.ptr()), stolen_t{}) { if (!m_ptr) throw error_already_set(); }
+    explicit str(handle h) : object(raw_str(h.ptr()), stolen_t{}) { }
 
     operator std::string() const {
         object temp = *this;
@@ -950,8 +950,8 @@ class str : public object {
     /// Return string representation -- always returns a new reference, even if already a str
     static PyObject *raw_str(PyObject *op) {
         PyObject *str_value = PyObject_Str(op);
-#if PY_MAJOR_VERSION < 3
         if (!str_value) throw error_already_set();
+#if PY_MAJOR_VERSION < 3
         PyObject *unicode = PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject(str_value, "utf-8", nullptr);
         Py_XDECREF(str_value); str_value = unicode;
 #endif

tests/test_pytypes.cpp

@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ TEST_SUBMODULE(pytypes, m) {
     m.def("str_from_bytes", []() { return py::str(py::bytes("boo", 3)); });
     m.def("str_from_object", [](const py::object& obj) { return py::str(obj); });
     m.def("repr_from_object", [](const py::object& obj) { return py::repr(obj); });
-    m.def("str_from_handle", [](py::handle h) { return py::str(h); });
 
     m.def("str_format", []() {
         auto s1 = "{} + {} = {}"_s.format(1, 2, 3);

tests/test_pytypes.py

@@ -104,28 +104,11 @@ def __repr__(self):
 
     assert m.str_from_object(A()) == "this is a str"
     assert m.repr_from_object(A()) == "this is a repr"
-    assert m.str_from_handle(A()) == "this is a str"
 
     s1, s2 = m.str_format()
     assert s1 == "1 + 2 = 3"
     assert s1 == s2
 
-    malformed_utf8 = b"\x80"
-    if env.PY2:
-        if hasattr(m, "has_str_non_permissive"):
-            with pytest.raises(UnicodeDecodeError):
-                m.str_from_object(malformed_utf8)
-        else:
-            m.str_from_object(malformed_utf8) is malformed_utf8
-        with pytest.raises(UnicodeDecodeError):
-            m.str_from_handle(malformed_utf8)
-    else:
-        if hasattr(m, "has_str_non_permissive"):
-            assert m.str_from_object(malformed_utf8) == "b'\\x80'"
-        else:
-            assert m.str_from_object(malformed_utf8) is malformed_utf8
-        assert m.str_from_handle(malformed_utf8) == "b'\\x80'"
-
 
 def test_bytes(doc):
     assert m.bytes_from_string().decode() == "foo"