Removed unicode encoding for strings that might not be unicode

tornadoredis/client.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop
 from tornado import gen
 from tornado import stack_context
-from tornado.escape import utf8, to_unicode, to_basestring
+from tornado.escape import utf8, to_basestring
 
 from .exceptions import RequestError, ConnectionError, ResponseError
 from .connection import Connection
@@ -440,7 +440,6 @@ def _consume_bulk(self, tail, callback=None):
         if not response:
             raise ResponseError('EmptyResponse')
         else:
-            response = to_unicode(response)
             response = response[:-2]
         callback(response)