From e794c7f246d33da83335ee965bd2653f36cc8d7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Stampar <miroslav.stampar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 09:13:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Patch for an Issue #1027

---
 lib/core/target.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/core/target.py b/lib/core/target.py
index ca9851c84..2f33daa7b 100644
--- a/lib/core/target.py
+++ b/lib/core/target.py
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ def _createTargetDirs():
                 errMsg += "create temporary files and/or directories"
                 raise SqlmapGenericException(errMsg)
             warnMsg = "unable to create output directory "
-            warnMsg += "'%s' (%s). " % (conf.outputPath, ex)
+            warnMsg += "'%s' (%s). " % (conf.outputPath, getUnicode(ex))
             warnMsg += "Using temporary directory '%s' instead" % tempDir
             logger.warn(warnMsg)