commit 62dae9ebf3e42b8a23e929f2903200189da3802e
author Andrew Kutz <101085+akutz@users.noreply.github.com> Wed Sep 23 15:48:26 2020 -0500
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Wed Sep 23 15:48:26 2020 -0500
tree 7c1de9c90e6d5e5ef61664e6812fa16af46627f2
parent 2f20df6622b71c3a0eb04c7e6e59b7adee9a9b60
parent 8626bab235a7f59bc86fb7ca4653266c58b3d57b

Merge pull request #55 from Promaethius/master

Ipaddress Unicode Error

DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py

diff --git a/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py b/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py
index 8fea17d..d6c7365 100644
--- a/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py
+++ b/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py
@@ -569,7 +569,10 @@
     """
     addr = None
     try:
-        addr = ipaddress.ip_address(val)
+        try:
+            addr = ipaddress.ip_address(val)
+        except ipaddress.AddressValueError:
+            addr = ipaddress.ip_address(val.encode('utf-8'))
     except:
         return False
     if addr.is_link_local or addr.is_loopback or addr.is_unspecified: