Removing superfluous str() functions

To avoid messing up unicode non-latin characters.

This was a requested change.

diff --git a/rainbowstream/draw.py b/rainbowstream/draw.py
index 4423c265fb4b7fd309d1ebd0575c31601b056335..75e75772d850888fbab7e38f5ee05ea9b2feaf7a 100644 (file)
--- a/rainbowstream/draw.py
+++ b/rainbowstream/draw.py
@@ -1066,8 +1066,8 @@ def format_quote(tweet):
     Quoting format
     """
     # Retrieve info
-    screen_name = str( tweet['user']['screen_name'] )
-    text        = str( tweet['text'] )
+    screen_name = tweet['user']['screen_name']
+    text        = tweet['text']
     tid         = str( tweet['id'] )
 
     # Validate quote format