GeoIP doesn't support unicode path

[julian@…]

If the path that GeoIP should use is a unicode object it will fail to properly parse/identify the GeoIP databases.

>>> from django.contrib.gis.geoip import GeoIP
>>> g = GeoIP(path='/path/to/GeoIP')
>>> g.info
'GeoIP Library:\n\t1.4.8\nCountry:\n\tGEO-106FREE [...]\nCity:\n\tGEO-533LITE [...]'
>>> g = GeoIP(path=u'/path/to/GeoIP')
>>> g.info
'GeoIP Library:\n\t1.4.8\nCountry:\n\t\nCity:\n\t'

Tested this on Python 2.7. The same effect occurs in py3k, but getting it to work there in the same way would require using byte literals in django/contrib/gis/geoip/base.py", line 92, in __init__.

Using Linux kernel 3.8.5-1-ARCH, ext4 filesystem and Python 2.7.4.

[Claude Paroz]

GeoIP definitely needs some love... I'll see what I can do.

[Claude Paroz <claude@…>]

In 465a29abe09012059b4a8ff34f1020f48879ad71:

Fixed #20384 -- Forced GeoIP_open path argument to bytestring

Thanks Julian Wachholz for the report.