From 267c24c8ef042e6c9a1a5fe46278eee9d04d5e07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lance Stout <lancestout@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 09:04:41 -0700
Subject: Fix encoding issue in Python3.

---
 sleekxmpp/util/misc_ops.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

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)
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