From 0958eecfcaf4b73048ba68c8805d3de3476a25dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: elpolilla <none@none>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:18:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Modified canonicalize_url to make it always work with regular
 strings

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extra : convert_revision : svn%3Ab85faa78-f9eb-468e-a121-7cced6da292c%40433
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 scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/url.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/url.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/url.py
index b989f1941..89a29d5e9 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/url.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/url.py
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ def canonicalize_url(url, keep_blank_values=False, keep_fragments=False):
     For examples see the tests in scrapy.tests.test_utils_url
     """
 
+    url = str(url) # URLs *must* be a string; otherwise urllib may fail.
     parts = list(urlparse.urlparse(url))
     keyvals = cgi.parse_qsl(parts[4], keep_blank_values)
     keyvals.sort()