From 068f48f2ad1761034804879ad32c91e6b52a2e31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wu Tingfeng <wutingfeng@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 07:20:34 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Remove redundant steps

---
 idna/core.py | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/idna/core.py b/idna/core.py
index 0bd89a3..9eecaf3 100644
--- a/idna/core.py
+++ b/idna/core.py
@@ -262,13 +262,8 @@ def alabel(label: str) -> bytes:
     except UnicodeEncodeError:
         pass
 
-    if not label:
-        raise IDNAError('No Input')
-
-    label = str(label)
     check_label(label)
-    label_bytes = _punycode(label)
-    label_bytes = _alabel_prefix + label_bytes
+    label_bytes = _alabel_prefix + _punycode(label)
 
     if not valid_label_length(label_bytes):
         raise IDNAError('Label too long')