Bugfix for non-ascii chars using encode

Author: Paul Tagliamonte

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2012-06-29  Paul Tagliamonte  <[email protected]>
+
+* sunlight/services/openstates.py:
+ - Encode all URL pararms before they get to urlencode, in the event a
+   non-ascii name is passed as a kwarg.
+* Bump release to 1.1.4
+
 2012-05-14  Paul Tagliamonte  <[email protected]>
 
 * sunlight/services/openstates.py:

sunlight/__init__.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 """
 
 __appname__ = "sunlight"
-__version__ = "1.1.3"
+__version__ = "1.1.4"
 
 import sunlight.services.openstates
 import sunlight.services.capitolwords

sunlight/services/openstates.py

@@ -178,6 +178,11 @@ def district_boundary(self, boundary_id, **kwargs):
     # API impl methods
 
     def _get_url(self, objs, apikey, **kwargs):
+        nargs = {}
+        for arg in kwargs:
+            nargs[arg] = kwargs[arg].encode('utf-8')
+        kwargs = nargs
+
         # Gate for any None's in the query. This is usually a problem.
         if None in objs:
             raise BadRequestException("`None' passed to the URL encoder (%s)" %