foreignkey checks for unicode incoming string

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py
index cc7fa3b5bde0737aeddce70e3b1834eabaa36a6e..6fafd9e7b262a0ec0a6cbe83158eb11cd366ee3d 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py
@@ -406,7 +406,8 @@ class ForeignKey(SchemaItem):
         "schemaname.tablename.columnname" """
         self._colspec = column
         self._column = None
-
+        if isinstance(column, unicode):
+            column = str(column)
     def __repr__(self):
         return "ForeignKey(%s)" % repr(self._get_colspec())