From f35d1098102f484846f7eb10a15678e61646e822 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Kukushkin <alexander.kukushkin@zalando.de>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:17:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Bugfix: do not try to double encode data

---
 patroni/zookeeper.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/patroni/zookeeper.py b/patroni/zookeeper.py
index 6f8ab981..9a2ee8bb 100644
--- a/patroni/zookeeper.py
+++ b/patroni/zookeeper.py
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ class ZooKeeper(AbstractDCS):
             self.client.retry(self.client.set, self.failover_path, value.encode('utf-8'), version=index or -1)
             return True
         except NoNodeError:
-            return value == '' or (not index and self._create(self.failover_path, value.encode('utf-8')))
+            return value == '' or (not index and self._create(self.failover_path, value))
         except:
             logging.exception('set_failover_value')
             return False