From 617dc21eb99d44a284cb1d70e89911660a21903b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: retiefjimm <retiefjimm@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:32:31 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Kludge fix for uniode in story descs in appengine.

---
 fanficdownloader/output.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fanficdownloader/output.py b/fanficdownloader/output.py
index 25487d6..b5a1ff8 100644
--- a/fanficdownloader/output.py
+++ b/fanficdownloader/output.py
@@ -341,9 +341,13 @@ class EPubFanficWriter(FanficWriter):
 		
 		description = self.adapter.getStoryDescription()
 		if hasattr(description, "text"):
-			description = unicode(description.text)
-		else:
+			description = description.text
+		prevalue=description
+		try:
 			description = unicode(description)
+		except:
+			description=prevalue
+			
 		if description is not None and len(description) > 0:
 			description = description.replace ('\\\'', '\'').replace('\\\"', '\"')
 			description =  removeEntities(description)