Added try/except to deal with the possibility of user_id being stored in Redis as both string and bytes

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/wqflask/wqflask/user_session.py b/wqflask/wqflask/user_session.py
index d6f3b3fc..c5a577df 100644
--- a/wqflask/wqflask/user_session.py
+++ b/wqflask/wqflask/user_session.py
@@ -129,7 +129,10 @@ class UserSession(object):
         if b'user_id' not in self.record:
             self.record[b'user_id'] = str(uuid.uuid4())
 
-        return self.record[b'user_id']
+        try:
+            return self.record[b'user_id'].decode("utf-8")
+        except:
+            return self.record[b'user_id']
 
     @property
     def redis_user_id(self):