Balthazar Rouberol <rouberol.b@gmail.com> added the comment: I know this does not fix anything at the core, but it would allow you to use json.loads() with python 3.2 (maybe 3.1?): Replace json.loads(raw_data) by raw_data = raw_data.decode('utf-8') # Or any other ISO format json.loads(raw_data) ---------- nosy: +Balthazar.Rouberol _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10976> _______________________________________