From 3b52975340f2d38b11ab3247f9c21f1d15bee1f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ashley Whetter <ashley@awhetter.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:39:58 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed unicode decoding on Python 3.7

---
 autoapi/mappers/python.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/autoapi/mappers/python.py b/autoapi/mappers/python.py
index 4c5cefe..aa6e337 100644
--- a/autoapi/mappers/python.py
+++ b/autoapi/mappers/python.py
@@ -430,7 +430,11 @@ class Parser(object):
 
     def _encode(self, to_encode):
         if self._encoding:
-            return _TEXT_TYPE(to_encode, self._encoding)
+            try:
+                return _TEXT_TYPE(to_encode, self._encoding)
+            except TypeError:
+                # The string was already in the correct format
+                pass
 
         return to_encode