{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jamesturk/jellyfish/issues/45","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jamesturk/jellyfish/issues/45/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jamesturk/jellyfish/issues/45/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jamesturk/jellyfish/issues/45/events","html_url":"https://github.com/jamesturk/jellyfish/issues/45","id":115207556,"number":45,"title":"TypeError: expected unicode, got str","user":{"login":"kyleiwaniec","id":840903,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/840903?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/kyleiwaniec","html_url":"https://github.com/kyleiwaniec","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kyleiwaniec/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kyleiwaniec/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kyleiwaniec/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kyleiwaniec/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kyleiwaniec/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kyleiwaniec/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kyleiwaniec/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kyleiwaniec/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kyleiwaniec/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-11-05T04:32:22Z","updated_at":"2015-11-05T04:32:22Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I am getting this error when running any of the functions in the readme:\r\n\r\n```\r\n>>> import jellyfish\r\n>>> jellyfish.metaphone('Jellyfish')\r\nTraceback (most recent call last):\r\n  File \"<stdin>\", line 1, in <module>\r\nTypeError: expected unicode, got str\r\n```\r\nI am not sure if this is an error in jellyfish or a more general python error\r\nI have tried with python 2.6 and 2.7\r\n\r\nIs there something I can do to fix it?\r\n"}}