Utf8able now coerces objects to strings

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/boto/utils.py b/boto/utils.py
index ed39c253..b74ee767 100644
--- a/boto/utils.py
+++ b/boto/utils.py
@@ -1109,6 +1109,8 @@ def get_utf8able_str(s, errors='strict'):
     makes sure that any bytes passed in can be decoded using the
     utf-8 codec (and raises a UnicodeDecodeError if not).
     """
+    if not isinstance(s, (text_type, binary_type)):
+        s = str(s)
     if six.PY2:
         # We want to return utf-8 encoded bytes.
         if isinstance(s, six.text_type):