had unicode check improperly placed

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py
index 6fafd9e7b..3fc3752c7 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/schema.py
@@ -404,10 +404,11 @@ class ForeignKey(SchemaItem):
         object representing the relationship, or just its string name given as 
         "tablename.columnname".  schema can be specified as 
         "schemaname.tablename.columnname" """
-        self._colspec = column
-        self._column = None
         if isinstance(column, unicode):
             column = str(column)
+        self._colspec = column
+        self._column = None
+
     def __repr__(self):
         return "ForeignKey(%s)" % repr(self._get_colspec())