【debug】Python 3解决报错：‘NoneType‘ object has no attribute ‘decode‘

names, plot_dicts = [], []
for repo_dict in repo_dics:
    names.append(repo_dict['name'])
    plot_dict = {
        'value':repo_dict['stargazers_count'],
        'label':repo_dict['description']
    }

用Pygal绘制条形图时报错：

  File "D:\Program Files (x86)\PycharmProject\Study\venv\lib\site-packages\pygal\graph\bar.py", line 116, in bar
    metadata)
  File "D:\Program Files (x86)\PycharmProject\Study\venv\lib\site-packages\pygal\util.py", line 233, in decorate
    metadata['label'])
  File "D:\Program Files (x86)\PycharmProject\Study\venv\lib\site-packages\pygal\_compat.py", line 61, in to_unicode
    return string.decode('utf-8')
***AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'decode'***

错误原因：

'label':repo_dict['description']

有一个repo_dict[‘description’]为空。
如何发现这个错误的？
根据控制台打印，打开报错代码：

    if 'label' in metadata:
        svg.node(node, 'desc', class_='label').text = to_unicode(
            metadata['label'])
    return node

def to_unicode(string):
    """Force string to be a string in python 3 or a unicode in python 2"""
    if not isinstance(string, coerce):
        return string.decode('utf-8')
    return string

发现对‘label’的值有一个解码，如果value为空，那么肯定无法解码，所以报：NoneType’ object has no attribute 'decode’的错误。
解决方法：

        'label':str(repo_dict['description'])

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