From a4e0ce50709b3821006149d2ade6471660c66223 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tobias Megies <megies@geophysik.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:27:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] try to get rid of unicode strings in `__str__(self)` of event
 types

---
 obspy/core/event.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/obspy/core/event.py b/obspy/core/event.py
index 8e071554497..7dffa20bacd 100644
--- a/obspy/core/event.py
+++ b/obspy/core/event.py
@@ -337,7 +337,10 @@ def __str__(self, force_one_line=False):
                 return ret_str + "()"
 
             def get_value_repr(key):
-                repr_str = getattr(self, key).__repr__()
+                value = getattr(self, key)
+                if isinstance(value, (str, native_str)):
+                    value = native_str(value)
+                repr_str = value.__repr__()
                 # Print any associated errors.
                 error_key = key + "_errors"
                 if hasattr(self, error_key) and\