Update mitie.py adding try/pass to to_bytes

snowlord · Sep 20, 2016 · 2d760a7 · 2d760a7
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diff --git a/mitielib/mitie.py b/mitielib/mitie.py
@@ -93,7 +93,11 @@ def to_bytes(string):
     """Encode the string in utf-8. If the string is already encoded (bytes in Python 3
        or str in Python 2), return the string unmodified."""
     if hasattr(string, 'encode'):
-        string = string.encode('utf-8')
+        try:
+            temp = string.encode('utf-8')
+            string = temp
+        except:
+            pass
 
     return string