Convert input to a string object. Fixes #909230.

Backported 2.3.

diff --git a/Lib/encodings/idna.py b/Lib/encodings/idna.py
index 37462dbe11549bebcdcdbff9d019a037d10f61bd..48142157fdf5a7fef8ddbaa6520e258a2e8d4675 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/encodings/idna.py
+++ b/Lib/encodings/idna.py
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ class Codec(codecs.Codec):
             labels = dots.split(input)
         else:
             # Must be ASCII string
+            input = str(input)
             unicode(input, "ascii")
             labels = input.split(".")