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-rw-r--r--sleekxmpp/util/misc_ops.py3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sleekxmpp/util/misc_ops.py b/sleekxmpp/util/misc_ops.py
index 9ed535d9..1dcc2b91 100644
--- a/sleekxmpp/util/misc_ops.py
+++ b/sleekxmpp/util/misc_ops.py
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ def bytes(text):
:param text: Unicode text to convert to bytes
:rtype: bytes (Python3), str (Python2.6+)
"""
+ if text is None:
+ return b''
+
if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
import __builtin__
return __builtin__.bytes(text)