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Diffstat (limited to 'netlib/strutils.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | netlib/strutils.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/netlib/strutils.py b/netlib/strutils.py index 4cb3b805..d43c2aab 100644 --- a/netlib/strutils.py +++ b/netlib/strutils.py @@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ import six def always_bytes(unicode_or_bytes, *encode_args): if isinstance(unicode_or_bytes, six.text_type): return unicode_or_bytes.encode(*encode_args) - return unicode_or_bytes + elif isinstance(unicode_or_bytes, bytes) or unicode_or_bytes is None: + return unicode_or_bytes + else: + raise TypeError("Expected str or bytes, but got {}.".format(type(unicode_or_bytes).__name__)) def native(s, *encoding_opts): |