Comment 35 for bug 626023

Hello Ken!

From what i understand from this post:

http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-06-16/what-to-do-if-python-says-%E2%80%9Ccharacter-mapping-must-return-integer-none-or-unicode%E2%80%9D

the problem is in the input given to the hmac library:

key.translate(trans_5C)

It seams like gwibber stores its account information in unicode format and the hmac library does not accept unicode characters. A quick and dirty fix to the error you posted should be encoding the unicode strings into ASCII text. I have attached a bzr diff to your branch that does this.

There is no doubt a better solution to this error (maybe storing account information as ascii instead of unicode?).