Billiard 2.7.3.10 issues with bytes / strings

[humbuckler]

Trying to run billiard 2.7.3.10 with Celery in Python 3.2. I get the following error (suggested fix below):
[2012-07-25 10:29:27,504: ERROR/MainProcess] Unrecoverable error: TypeError('string argument without an encoding',)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/celery-3.0.3-py3.2.egg/celery/worker/init.py", line 350, in start
component.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/celery-3.0.3-py3.2.egg/celery/concurrency/base.py", line 109, in start
self.on_start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/celery-3.0.3-py3.2.egg/celery/concurrency/processes/init.py", line 84, in on_start
**self.options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/billiard-2.7.3.10-py3.2.egg/billiard/pool.py", line 760, in init
self._setup_queues()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/billiard-2.7.3.10-py3.2.egg/billiard/pool.py", line 990, in _setup_queues
self._inqueue = SimpleQueue()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/billiard-2.7.3.10-py3.2.egg/billiard/queues.py", line 339, in init
self._reader, self._writer = Pipe(duplex=False)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/billiard-2.7.3.10-py3.2.egg/billiard/init.py", line 113, in Pipe
from .connection import Pipe
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/billiard-2.7.3.10-py3.2.egg/billiard/connection.py", line 426, in
CHALLENGE = bytes('#CHALLENGE#')
TypeError: string argument without an encoding

By specifying an encoding in lines 426-428 of connection.py, it got past this error. Not sure if other things will pop up elsewhere, however.

other options might be utf_32, utf_16

CHALLENGE = bytes('#CHALLENGE#','ascii')

WELCOME = bytes('#WELCOME#','ascii')

FAILURE = bytes('#FAILURE#','ascii')