normalize BytesToken values to binary type

aholmberg · aholmberg · commit d39665f5cec4 · 2016-05-13T15:05:04.000-05:00
fixes UnicodeDecodeError when one value has non-ascii values

PYTHON-559
diff --git a/cassandra/metadata.py b/cassandra/metadata.py
@@ -1519,10 +1519,8 @@ class BytesToken(Token):
 
     def __init__(self, token_string):
         """ `token_string` should be string representing the token. """
-        if not isinstance(token_string, six.string_types):
-            raise TypeError(
-                "Tokens for ByteOrderedPartitioner should be strings (got %s)"
-                % (type(token_string),))
+        if isinstance(token_string, six.text_type):
+            token_string = token_string.encode('utf-8')
         self.value = token_string
 
 
