Cleaned up type-error fix

src/icalendar/parser_tools.py

@@ -2,6 +2,23 @@
 DEFAULT_ENCODING = 'utf-8'
 
 
+def from_unicode(value, encoding='utf-8') -> bytes:
+    """
+    Converts a value to bytes, even if it already is bytes
+    :param value: The value to convert
+    :param encoding: The encoding to use in the conversion
+    :return: The bytes representation of the value
+    """
+    if isinstance(value, bytes):
+        return value
+    elif isinstance(value, str):
+        try:
+            return value.encode(encoding)
+        except UnicodeEncodeError:
+            value = value.encode('utf-8', 'replace')
+    return value
+
+
 def to_unicode(value, encoding='utf-8'):
     """Converts a value to unicode, even if it is already a unicode string.
     """

src/icalendar/prop.py

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
 from icalendar.parser_tools import DEFAULT_ENCODING
 from icalendar.parser_tools import SEQUENCE_TYPES
 from icalendar.parser_tools import to_unicode
+from icalendar.parser_tools import from_unicode
 from icalendar.timezone_cache import _timezone_cache
 from icalendar.windows_to_olson import WINDOWS_TO_OLSON
 
@@ -251,21 +252,8 @@ def __init__(self, dt_list):
         self.dts = vDDD
 
     def to_ical(self):
-        dts_ical = [dt.to_ical() for dt in self.dts]
-
-        # Make sure all elements are of the same type
-        if dts_ical and all(isinstance(dt, type(dts_ical[0])) for dt in dts_ical):
-            first_dt = dts_ical[0]
-            if isinstance(first_dt, bytes):
-                return b",".join(dts_ical)
-            elif isinstance(first_dt, str):
-                return ",".join(dts_ical)
-            else:
-                raise ValueError(f"Unexpected type {type(first_dt)} in vDDD list!")
-        elif not dts_ical:
-            return b""
-        else:
-            raise ValueError("Type mismatch in vDDD list!")
+        dts_ical = (from_unicode(dt.to_ical()) for dt in self.dts)
+        return b",".join(dts_ical)
 
     @staticmethod
     def from_ical(ical, timezone=None):