From 44f60ba141204073983e99b56cfb8ce061bc01cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mehdy <mehdy.khoshnoody@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:27:05 +0330
Subject: [PATCH] fixed #1198 issue by encoding the unicode parameters to bytes
 and decoding the bytes response to unicode

---
 _pytest/pastebin.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/_pytest/pastebin.py b/_pytest/pastebin.py
index f5e479158..0b662c62b 100644
--- a/_pytest/pastebin.py
+++ b/_pytest/pastebin.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ def create_new_paste(contents):
         'expiry': '1week',
     }
     url = 'https://bpaste.net'
-    response = urlopen(url, data=urlencode(params)).read()
+    response = urlopen(url, data=urlencode(params).encode()).read().decode()
     m = re.search(r'href="/raw/(\w+)"', response)
     if m:
         return '%s/show/%s' % (url, m.group(1))