Add note about passing strings to Java in Python 2 to fix
@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ One limitation of the Thrift interface we use to send the topology to Storm is
that the constructors for Java components can only be passed basic Python data
types: `bool`, `bytes`, `float`, `int`, and `str`.
+.. note::
+ If you are passing strings as constructor arguments to Java components via
+ the ``args_list`` parameter, you must use `unicode` literals to do so in
+ Python 2. Otherwise, Storm will raise an exception.
+
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
