This should probably be unicode.

tests/test_websocket.py

@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ class WebSocketTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def testWSKey(self):
         key = ws._create_sec_websocket_key()
         self.assert_(key != 24)
-        self.assert_("¥n".encode('utf-8') not in key)
+        self.assert_("¥n" not in key)
 
     def testWsUtils(self):
         sock = ws.WebSocket()

websocket/__init__.py

@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ _MAX_CHAR_BYTE = (1<<8) -1
 
 def _create_sec_websocket_key():
     uid = uuid.uuid4()
-    return base64.encodestring(uid.bytes).strip()
+    return base64.encodestring(uid.bytes).decode('utf-8').strip()
 
 
 _HEADERS_TO_CHECK = {