unicode objects must be encoded

[vantessel]

maybe it's just me but:
from bitstampy import api
c='999999'
k='xXx'
s=b'xXx'
api.account_balance(c, k, s)

and I get the error:
TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing
on pyhton 3.4

[zlwolf236]

I got the same error, have been spending 2 days on this, hope somebody can help. Very much appreciated

[zlwolf236]

this is solved (clean or not clean). I hardcoded the code in hmac.py with this substitution

def update(self, msg):
    """Update this hashing object with the string msg.
    """


    #Two line below were hardcoded
    msg = bytearray(str(msg), 'utf-8')
    print(type(msg))

    self.inner.update(msg)

[unwitting]

Hi - is there any reason you're using a byte string for the secret key? I have a feeling that might be causing this?