appliedsec/collectd — Issue #3: unicode "specific" parameters cause message formatting errors
Author: EliAndrewC
Created: 2012-01-24 21:01:05+00:00
State: open

If we say

conn.stats.record('foo', bar = 5)

then it works just fine, but if I say

conn.stats.record(u'foo', bar = 5)

then it ends up causing a formatting error when the messages are sent in the UDP-sender thread. We should automatically coerce these values into strings.