TypeError when Attribute doesn't exist

[aneroid]

Hi @jacquev6 When a github user's name has not been entered, I get a TypeError:
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found

Using:

user = gh.get_user('username')
print user.id
print user.login + ' -> ' + user.name

Also happens with getattr:

print getattr(user, u'login') + ' -> ' + getattr(user, u'name', u'No name entered')
#(or)
print getattr(user, 'login') + ' -> ' + getattr(user, 'name', 'No name entered')

Is this the expected behaviour for missing (non-mandatory) attributes? I used except TypeError: as a workaround.

[jacquev6]

Hello, when the user has not set his name, user.name is None, so you can't concatenate it with a string. The exception is not raised by PyGithub but by your code. Try print user.login, "->", user.name to avoid string concatenation.

[aneroid]

Perfect! Thanks, that worked. I knew + for string concatenation was evil...did not listen.