method in rpc call is not always unicode. So just check it's instance of basestring.

diff --git a/p2pool/util/jsonrpc.py b/p2pool/util/jsonrpc.py
index 75c392e..6d63a0a 100644 (file)
--- a/p2pool/util/jsonrpc.py
+++ b/p2pool/util/jsonrpc.py
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ class Server(deferred_resource.DeferredResource):
         try:
             try:
                 method = req['method']
-                if not isinstance(method, unicode):
+                if not isinstance(method, basestring):
                     raise ValueError()
                 params = req.get('params', [])
                 if not isinstance(params, list):