From 5067a62e71161482ad755c3bd6007cf1a454be6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:30:05 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] IGN:...

---
 src/calibre/__init__.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/__init__.py b/src/calibre/__init__.py
index 4751e82a20..942df667e9 100644
--- a/src/calibre/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/__init__.py
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ def prints(*args, **kwargs):
     for i, arg in enumerate(args):
         if isinstance(arg, unicode):
             arg = arg.encode(preferred_encoding)
+        if not isinstance(arg, str):
+            arg = str(arg)
         file.write(arg)
         if i != len(args)-1:
             file.write(sep)