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diff --git a/python/pyspark/streaming/kafka.py b/python/pyspark/streaming/kafka.py
index dc5b7fd878..8a814c64c0 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/streaming/kafka.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/streaming/kafka.py
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ __all__ = ['Broker', 'KafkaUtils', 'OffsetRange', 'TopicAndPartition', 'utf8_dec
def utf8_decoder(s):
""" Decode the unicode as UTF-8 """
- return s and s.decode('utf-8')
+ if s is None:
+ return None
+ return s.decode('utf-8')
class KafkaUtils(object):