Github user BryanCutler commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/20838#discussion_r177176851
--- Diff: dev/create-release/releaseutils.py ---
@@ -149,7 +152,11 @@ def get_commits(tag):
if not is_valid_author(author):
author = github_username
# Guard against special characters
- author = unidecode.unidecode(unicode(author, "UTF-8")).strip()
+ try: # Python 2
+ author = unicode(author, "UTF-8")
+ except NameError: # Python 3
+ author = str(author)
+ author = unidecode.unidecode(author).strip()
--- End diff --
could you just put this above:
```
if sys.version > '3':
unicode = str
```
and then just do?
```
author = unidecode.unidecode(unicode(author)).strip()
```
I don't think you need to specify "UTF-8" because either way it will be a
unicode object
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