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Diffstat (limited to 'cloudinit/config')
| -rw-r--r-- | cloudinit/config/cc_seed_random.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/cloudinit/config/cc_seed_random.py b/cloudinit/config/cc_seed_random.py index 3b7235bf..981e1b08 100644 --- a/cloudinit/config/cc_seed_random.py +++ b/cloudinit/config/cc_seed_random.py @@ -38,7 +38,13 @@ def _decode(data, encoding=None): if not encoding or encoding.lower() in ['raw']: return data elif encoding.lower() in ['base64', 'b64']: - return base64.b64decode(data) + # Try to give us a native string in both Python 2 and 3, and remember + # that b64decode() returns bytes in Python 3. + decoded = base64.b64decode(data) + try: + return decoded.decode('utf-8') + except UnicodeDecodeError: + return decoded elif encoding.lower() in ['gzip', 'gz']: return util.decomp_gzip(data, quiet=False) else: |