diff --git a/swift/obj/replicator.py b/swift/obj/replicator.py
index c4df49deba..762a77ea46 100644
--- a/swift/obj/replicator.py
+++ b/swift/obj/replicator.py
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ class ObjectReplicator(Daemon):
             return 1  # failure response code
 
         total_time = time.time() - start_time
-        for result in results.split('\n'):
+        for result in results.decode('utf8').split('\n'):
             if result == '':
                 continue
             if result.startswith('cd+'):
diff --git a/test/unit/obj/test_replicator.py b/test/unit/obj/test_replicator.py
index 51c54ca931..4c66e13d15 100644
--- a/test/unit/obj/test_replicator.py
+++ b/test/unit/obj/test_replicator.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import os
 import mock
 from gzip import GzipFile
 from shutil import rmtree
+import six
 import six.moves.cPickle as pickle
 import time
 import tempfile
@@ -124,7 +125,8 @@ def _mock_process(ret):
     MockProcess.captured_log = captured_log
     orig_process = subprocess.Popen
     MockProcess.ret_code = (i[0] for i in ret)
-    MockProcess.ret_log = (i[1] for i in ret)
+    MockProcess.ret_log = (i[1] if six.PY2 else i[1].encode('utf8')
+                           for i in ret)
     MockProcess.check_args = (i[2] for i in ret)
     object_replicator.subprocess.Popen = MockProcess
     yield captured_log