From 59e6c34b9e99d1e291585a1cbbb20e895db9182e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ThugPigeon653 <89567974+ThugPigeon653@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:07:39 +1000
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] fixed encoding

---
 googlemaps/client.py | 17 ++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/googlemaps/client.py b/googlemaps/client.py
index d1f4ab6a..424f4f7d 100644
--- a/googlemaps/client.py
+++ b/googlemaps/client.py
@@ -516,19 +516,18 @@ def urlencode_params(params):
 
 
 try:
-    unicode
     # NOTE(cbro): `unicode` was removed in Python 3. In Python 3, NameError is
     # raised here, and caught below.
 
     def normalize_for_urlencode(value):
-        """(Python 2) Converts the value to a `str` (raw bytes)."""
-        if isinstance(value, unicode):
-            return value.encode('utf8')
-
-        if isinstance(value, str):
-            return value
-
-        return normalize_for_urlencode(str(value))
+        if(sys.version[0]<=2):
+            """(Python 2) Converts the value to a `str` (raw bytes)."""
+            if isinstance(value, str):
+                return value
+            else:
+                return value.encode('utf8')
+        else:
+            return value.encode('utf-8')
 
 except NameError:
     def normalize_for_urlencode(value):

From 78ade661660dbce1df53292ae7139542f6b77d47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ThugPigeon653 <89567974+ThugPigeon653@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:14:43 +1000
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] fixed TypeError caused by py version check

---
 googlemaps/client.py | 2 +-
 setup.cfg            | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/googlemaps/client.py b/googlemaps/client.py
index 424f4f7d..fab5cc51 100644
--- a/googlemaps/client.py
+++ b/googlemaps/client.py
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ def urlencode_params(params):
     # raised here, and caught below.
 
     def normalize_for_urlencode(value):
-        if(sys.version[0]<=2):
+        if(int(sys.version[0])<=2):
             """(Python 2) Converts the value to a `str` (raw bytes)."""
             if isinstance(value, str):
                 return value
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 56320971..d281685d 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tool:pytest]
-addopts = -rsxX --cov=googlemaps --cov-report=
+addopts = -rsxX 
 
 [coverage:run]
 omit = 

From d55834c7821316372a4b7f5c463505926e61f3db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ThugPigeon653 <89567974+ThugPigeon653@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:26:39 +1000
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] fix(api)

---
 googlemaps/client.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/googlemaps/client.py b/googlemaps/client.py
index fab5cc51..23bd509b 100644
--- a/googlemaps/client.py
+++ b/googlemaps/client.py
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ def urlencode_params(params):
 
 try:
     # NOTE(cbro): `unicode` was removed in Python 3. In Python 3, NameError is
-    # raised here, and caught below.
+    # raised here, and caught below. 
 
     def normalize_for_urlencode(value):
         if(int(sys.version[0])<=2):