*Really* fixed bug #146313 (passing the filename to the Image constructor as unicode fails): if filename is passed as unicode, it is converted to a regular string.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/pyexiv2.py b/src/pyexiv2.py
index 6a1b46a..5a03213 100644
--- a/src/pyexiv2.py
+++ b/src/pyexiv2.py
@@ -281,7 +281,9 @@ class Image(libpyexiv2.Image):
 	"""
 
 	def __init__(self, filename):
-		libpyexiv2.Image.__init__(self, str(filename))
+		if filename.__class__ is unicode:
+			filename = filename.encode('utf-8')
+		libpyexiv2.Image.__init__(self, filename)
 		self.__exifTagsDict = {}
 		self.__iptcTagsDict = {}