code: def normalizePointName(value):
      
      if not isinstance(value, basestring):
          raise TypeError("Point names must be strings, not %s."
                          % type(value).__name__)
      if len(value) < 1:
          raise ValueError("Point names must be at least one character long.")
      return unicode(value)
docs: Normalizes point name.
  
      * **value** must be a :ref:`type-string`.
      * **value** must be at least one character long.
      * Returned value will be an unencoded ``unicode`` string.