Merge pull request #113 from mcpeak/catch-non-ascii-in-dynamo

Catch non unicode chars in Dynamo
Netflix · Sep 6, 2018 · 78a1574 · 78a1574
2 parents 8f9fe48 + f854920
commit 78a1574
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 1 deletion.
diff --git a/repokid/utils/dynamo.py b/repokid/utils/dynamo.py
@@ -317,6 +317,9 @@ def _empty_string_to_dynamo_replace(obj):
     elif isinstance(obj, list):
         return [_empty_string_to_dynamo_replace(elem) for elem in obj]
     else:
-        if str(obj) == '':
+        try:
+            if str(obj) == '':
+                obj = DYNAMO_EMPTY_STRING
+        except UnicodeEncodeError:
             obj = DYNAMO_EMPTY_STRING
         return obj