Create Customer Fails with unicode error

[michaelrice]

Getting error trying to create customer:

2014-10-20 11:14:10,360 - root - ERROR - An unexpected exception has happened.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/money_gun.py", line 99, in <module>
    customers.create_customer(vcum_connection, customer)
  File "/root/Envs/rainmaker/lib/python2.7/site-packages/thunderhead/builder/customers.py", line 127, in create_customer
    customer_data = _build_customer_payload(customer)
  File "/root/Envs/rainmaker/lib/python2.7/site-packages/thunderhead/builder/customers.py", line 102, in _build_customer_payload
    return tostring(root)
  File "/usr/local/python2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1126, in tostring
    ElementTree(element).write(file, encoding, method=method)
  File "/usr/local/python2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 820, in write
    serialize(write, self._root, encoding, qnames, namespaces)
  File "/usr/local/python2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 939, in _serialize_xml
    _serialize_xml(write, e, encoding, qnames, None)
  File "/usr/local/python2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 937, in _serialize_xml
    write(_escape_cdata(text, encoding))
  File "/usr/local/python2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1073, in _escape_cdata
    return text.encode(encoding, "xmlcharrefreplace")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)