From 5e7c9687c7e11b6adfe2fc534eb0504e67ca9fc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Christie
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 09:13:02 +0000
Subject: First pass at serializer repr bug

---
 rest_framework/utils/representation.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'rest_framework/utils/representation.py')

diff --git a/rest_framework/utils/representation.py b/rest_framework/utils/representation.py
index 3f17a8b9..0fdb4775 100644
--- a/rest_framework/utils/representation.py
+++ b/rest_framework/utils/representation.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 Helper functions for creating user-friendly representations
 of serializer classes and serializer fields.
 """
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from django.db import models
 from django.utils.encoding import force_text
 from django.utils.functional import Promise
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ def smart_repr(value):
     if isinstance(value, Promise) and value._delegate_text:
         value = force_text(value)
 
-    value = repr(value)
+    value = repr(value).decode('utf-8')
 
     # Representations like u'help text'
     # should simply be presented as 'help text'
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