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diff --git a/libbe/comment.py b/libbe/comment.py
index 082a46f..cfb951d 100644
--- a/libbe/comment.py
+++ b/libbe/comment.py
@@ -377,7 +377,10 @@ class Comment (Tree, settings_object.SavedSettingsObject):
text = settings_object.EMPTY
else:
text = xml.sax.saxutils.unescape(child.text)
- text = text.decode('unicode_escape').strip()
+ # Sometimes saxutils returns unicode
+ if not isinstance(text, unicode):
+ text = text.decode('unicode_escape')
+ text = text.strip()
if child.tag == 'uuid' and not preserve_uuids:
uuid = text
continue # don't set the comment's uuid tag.