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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/spack/spack/util/spack_json.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/util/spack_json.py b/lib/spack/spack/util/spack_json.py index ae26b97d54..62fd9ca824 100644 --- a/lib/spack/spack/util/spack_json.py +++ b/lib/spack/spack/util/spack_json.py @@ -38,10 +38,14 @@ def dump(data, stream=None): def _strify(data, ignore_dicts=False): + """Converts python 2 unicodes to str in JSON data.""" + # this is a no-op in python 3 + if sys.version_info[0] >= 3: + return data + # if this is a unicode string in python 2, return its string representation - if sys.version_info[0] < 3: - if isinstance(data, string_types): - return data.encode('utf-8') + if isinstance(data, string_types): + return data.encode('utf-8') # if this is a list of values, return list of byteified values if isinstance(data, list): |