Django - Removing extraneous unicode symbols from geraldo reports

I am using geraldo/reportlab to generate part reports on my database. Reportlab only lets me perform one queryset at a time (as I understand it.) As a result, certain aspects of my report are pulled out of Ma开发者_StackOverflow社区nyToMany fields and ForeignKeys.

For example, class band_detail in reports.py:

ObjectValue(attribute_name='number', left = 9*cm, get_value=lambda instance: Drawing.objects.filter(number=DrawingRevision.objects.filter(part__id=instance.id).values('drawing')).values_list('number', flat=True))

This displays as:

[u'1', u'2', u'3']

...and so on. I don't know how to get rid of the unicode symbol "u." I can't iterate over my lambda function in ObjectValue. I tried overriding geraldo classes and definitions such as do_before_generate(), but had no luck.

Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks in advance!

Try:

[s.encode() for s in
 ObjectValue(attribute_name='number',
            left = 9*cm, 
            get_value=lambda instance:
               Drawing.objects.filter(number=DrawingRevision.objects
                                             .filter(part__id=instance.id)
                                             .values('drawing')
                                     ).values_list('number', flat=True)
           )
]

or

ObjectValue(attribute_name='number',
            left = 9*cm, 
            get_value=lambda instance:
            [ n.encode() for n in
               Drawing.objects.filter(number=DrawingRevision.objects
                                             .filter(part__id=instance.id)
                                             .values('drawing')
                                     ).values_list('number', flat=True)
            ]
           )

this should give you:

['1', '2', '3']