Github user dgingrich commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16845
Another alternate is to use [`six`](https://pythonhosted.org/six/). In the
standard library `text_type`) works:
```python
# Python2.6
>>> import six
>>> six.text_type(Exception(u"unicöde"))
u'unic\xf6de'
```
I also submitted a patch to six to add an `exception_message` helper
(https://github.com/benjaminp/six/pull/177) but I don't know if it will be
accepted since `Exception.message` has been deprecated since 2.6.
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