From b262eeaab7b8f4c6b6a6e7731bfbc58357a1d88b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Ralls <jralls@ceridwen.us>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 01:07:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] get_unicode_path_from_env_var(): make no-op if it's already
 unicode

svn: r21561
---
 gramps/gen/utils/file.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gramps/gen/utils/file.py b/gramps/gen/utils/file.py
index 1103c6828..a68952507 100644
--- a/gramps/gen/utils/file.py
+++ b/gramps/gen/utils/file.py
@@ -141,6 +141,10 @@ def get_unicode_path_from_env_var(path):
     :rtype:      unicode
     :returns:    The Unicode version of path.
     """
+    #No need to do anything if it's already unicode
+    if isinstance(path, UNITYPE):
+        return path
+
     # make only unicode of path of type 'str'
     if not (isinstance(path,  str)):
         raise TypeError("path %s isn't a str" % str(path))