TypeError: decode() takes no keyword arguments on python2.6

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Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Nov 21 2013, 10:50:32) 
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)] on linux2
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>>> from megacli import MegaCLI, MegaCLIError
>>> cli = MegaCLI()
>>> cli.physicaldrives()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/megacli/__init__.py", line 265, in physicaldrives
    data = self.execute("-PDList -aAll")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/megacli/__init__.py", line 41, in execute
    out = out.decode(errors="ignore")
TypeError: decode() takes no keyword arguments
>>>