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Diffstat (limited to 'netlib')
| -rw-r--r-- | netlib/utils.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/netlib/utils.py b/netlib/utils.py index 7499f71f..fe11cb5b 100644 --- a/netlib/utils.py +++ b/netlib/utils.py @@ -439,10 +439,14 @@ def escaped_str_to_bytes(data): """ Take an escaped string and return the unescaped bytes equivalent. """ - if not isinstance(data, str): + if not isinstance(data, six.string_types): + if six.PY2: + raise ValueError("data must be str or unicode") raise ValueError("data must be str") if six.PY2: + if isinstance(data, unicode): + data = data.encode("utf8") return data.decode("string-escape") # This one is difficult - we use an undocumented Python API here |