diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/unicode.py b/lib/ansible/utils/unicode.py index 2cff2e5e45c..a63c1960e1a 100644 --- a/lib/ansible/utils/unicode.py +++ b/lib/ansible/utils/unicode.py @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ def to_bytes(obj, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace', nonstring=None): return obj elif nonstring == 'simplerepr': try: - simple = binary_type(obj) + simple = str(obj) except UnicodeError: try: simple = obj.__str__()