always try decoding input to unicode, fix #38

Author: derek73

README.rst

@@ -89,8 +89,7 @@ Installation
 
 ``pip install nameparser``
 
-I usually push changes to `PyPi <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nameparser>`_
-pretty quickly. If you want to try out the latest code from GitHub you can
+If you want to try out the latest code from GitHub you can
 install with pip using the command below.
 
 ``pip install -e git+git://github.com/derek73/python-nameparser.git#egg=nameparser``

nameparser/__init__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-VERSION = (0, 3, 9)
+VERSION = (0, 3, 10)
 __version__ = '.'.join(map(str, VERSION))
 __author__ = "Derek Gulbranson"
 __author_email__ = '[email protected]'

nameparser/parser.py

@@ -390,8 +390,10 @@ def parse_full_name(self):
         self.nickname_list = []
         self.unparsable = True
 
-        if not isinstance(self._full_name, text_types):
+        try:
             self._full_name = u(self._full_name, self.ENCODING)
+        except TypeError:
+            pass
 
         self.pre_process()