From 71184220e6c7af8204492162f055b5cc5c7b41c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Jarvis <john@jarv.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:25:59 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] convert STATIC_URL to ascii

---
 cms/envs/aws.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cms/envs/aws.py b/cms/envs/aws.py
index 34ddcbd5505..32a4c975517 100644
--- a/cms/envs/aws.py
+++ b/cms/envs/aws.py
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ with open(CONFIG_ROOT / CONFIG_PREFIX + "env.json") as env_file:
 # STATIC_URL_BASE specifies the base url to use for static files
 STATIC_URL_BASE = ENV_TOKENS.get('STATIC_URL_BASE', None)
 if STATIC_URL_BASE:
-    STATIC_URL = STATIC_URL_BASE + "/" + git.revision + "/"
+    # collectstatic will fail if STATIC_URL is a unicode string
+    STATIC_URL = STATIC_URL_BASE.encode('ascii', 'ignore') + "/" + git.revision + "/"
 
 # GITHUB_REPO_ROOT is the base directory
 # for course data
-- 
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