Added UnicodeDecodeError catch to as_bytes and as_unicode

Author: dallerbarn

src/jwkest/__init__.py

@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ def as_bytes(s):
     """
     try:
         s = s.encode()
-    except AttributeError:
+    except (AttributeError, UnicodeDecodeError):
         pass
     return s
 
@@ -220,6 +220,6 @@ def as_unicode(b):
     """
     try:
         b = b.decode()
-    except AttributeError:
+    except (AttributeError, UnicodeDecodeError):
         pass
     return b

tests/test_3_jws.py

@@ -133,13 +133,13 @@ def test_hmac_from_keyrep():
 
 
 def test_left_hash_hs256():
-    hsh = jws.left_hash(b'Please take a moment to register today')
-    assert hsh == b'rCFHVJuxTqRxOsn2IUzgvA'
+    hsh = jws.left_hash('Please take a moment to register today')
+    assert hsh == 'rCFHVJuxTqRxOsn2IUzgvA'
 
 
 def test_left_hash_hs512():
-    hsh = jws.left_hash(b'Please take a moment to register today', "HS512")
-    assert hsh == b'_h6feWLt8zbYcOFnaBmekTzMJYEHdVTaXlDgJSWsEeY'
+    hsh = jws.left_hash('Please take a moment to register today', "HS512")
+    assert hsh == '_h6feWLt8zbYcOFnaBmekTzMJYEHdVTaXlDgJSWsEeY'
 
 
 def test_rs256():