Script fails with error: "TypeError: character mapping must return integer, None or unicode"

[MSohm]

Environment:
Windows 10
OpenSSL 1.0.2h
JDK 1.8.0_101
Python: 2.7.4 & 3.5.2
Android SDK Build Tools 24.0.1

APK used for testing was generated using the BasicMultiTouch sample found here: https://github.com/googlesamples/android-BasicMultitouch

Here is the full output:

C:\Users\msohm\Downloads>python externallyhosted.py --apk=BasicMultitouchSample-release.apk --externallyHostedUrl="removed"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "externallyhosted.py", line 411, in
main()
File "externallyhosted.py", line 406, in main
CreateJson(args.apk_file_name, args.externally_hosted_url).parse(),
File "externallyhosted.py", line 380, in parse
apk_properties.update(parser.parse())
File "externallyhosted.py", line 312, in parse
jar_zip.extractall(path=temp_dir, members=manifest_files)
File "C:\Python27\lib\zipfile.py", line 1036, in extractall
self.extract(zipinfo, path, pwd)
File "C:\Python27\lib\zipfile.py", line 1024, in extract
return self._extract_member(member, path, pwd)
File "C:\Python27\lib\zipfile.py", line 1057, in _extract_member
arcname = arcname.translate(table)
TypeError: character mapping must return integer, None or unicode