Fix bytes/strings logical issues

Hashes, and other calls, require bytes or strings in python3 where they
were different in python 2.x.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/saml2/config.py b/src/saml2/config.py
index d7953a0b..bc934f0a 100644
--- a/src/saml2/config.py
+++ b/src/saml2/config.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import os
 import re
 import logging
 import logging.handlers
+import six
 
 from importlib import import_module
 
@@ -296,7 +297,7 @@ class Config(object):
 
     def unicode_convert(self, item):
         try:
-            return unicode(item, "utf-8")
+            return six.text_type(item, "utf-8")
         except TypeError:
             _uc = self.unicode_convert
             if isinstance(item, dict):