From 76a7bbf5af919b42ec14e29e32a22bfbaa532b6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kgriffs <kurt.griffiths@rackspace.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 17:44:04 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix(testing): Encode environ path to str in Python 2

---
 falcon/testing/helpers.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/falcon/testing/helpers.py b/falcon/testing/helpers.py
index 7c955a7..4e028e6 100644
--- a/falcon/testing/helpers.py
+++ b/falcon/testing/helpers.py
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ def create_environ(path='/', query_string='', protocol='HTTP/1.1', port='80',
     body = io.BytesIO(body.encode('utf-8')
                       if isinstance(body, six.text_type) else body)
 
+    if six.PY2 and isinstance(path, unicode):
+        path = path.encode('utf-8')
+
     env = {
         'SERVER_PROTOCOL': protocol,
         'SERVER_SOFTWARE': 'gunicorn/0.17.0',