Bug with Python 3: "TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'"

[Finistere]

I had the following issue with Python 3 without this modification:

TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

It seems to work nicely with Python 3.5.1 and Python 2.7.11.
But I might have needed the change due to a misconfiguration of my test server...

[coveralls]

Coverage increased (+0.02%) to 96.109% when pulling c620e3d on Finistere:master into 33eb832 on toidi:master.

[adamkewley]

I encountered the same bug also, and (stupidly) implemented a fix before seeing this PR:

#13

The fix is similar, but ripped from an SO post, which gets the content encoding from the HTTP response header (and defaults to utf-8 if not present)

[ediskandarov-cur]

Hi @adamkewley thanks for the PR,
I'll try to restore access to pypi project and will review the code afterwards pypi/warehouse#4637

[lresende]

This might become obsolete with PR #16 and move to use requests package.

[dimon222]

This can be probably already closed since this code is no longer present (due to direct call to json() via requests)

[kevin-bates]

This code is no longer applicable - closing.