Update events to allow spanish descriptions

cggarvey · Aug 24, 2017 · c79504d · c79504d
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commit c79504d
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 4 deletions.
diff --git a/mlbgame/events.py b/mlbgame/events.py
@@ -89,9 +89,6 @@ def __init__(self, data):
         """
         # loop through data
         for x in data:
-            # remove spanish info (causes text encoding errors)
-            if '_es' in x:
-                continue
             # create pitches list if attribute name is pitches
             if x == 'pitches':
                 self.pitches = []
@@ -106,7 +103,10 @@ def __init__(self, data):
                     setattr(self, x, float(data[x]))
                 except ValueError:
                     # string if not number
-                    setattr(self, x, str(data[x]))
+                    try:
+                        setattr(self, x, str(data[x]))
+                    except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                        setattr(self, x, data[x])
 
     def nice_output(self):
         """Prints basic event info in a nice way."""