commit 8626bab235a7f59bc86fb7ca4653266c58b3d57b
author Promaethius <bryant.jonathan.42@gmail.com> Tue Sep 22 11:04:48 2020 -0600
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Tue Sep 22 11:04:48 2020 -0600
tree 42c3d1a6e6648997b17c33481fd93c1f0b05a363
parent 2ddb6e22d59ed1ef18c1eb6d2f53db629d7c0b14

Update DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py

specific exception handling over python version checking

DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py

diff --git a/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py b/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py
index 896c19b..b7cf780 100644
--- a/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py
+++ b/DataSourceVMwareGuestInfo.py
@@ -575,7 +575,10 @@
     """
     addr = None
     try:
-        addr = ipaddress.ip_address(val.encode("utf-8"))
+        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: