Removing an encode line which causes AttributeError

[Shushman]

While deserializing with the current setup I get the following error:

/home/shushman/ros_control_ws/src/prpy/src/prpy/serialization.pyc in <lambda>(x)
    661     '_type': (
    662         lambda x: x.name,
--> 663         lambda x: openravepy.KinBody.JointType.names[x].encode()
    664     ),
    665     '_vanchor': numpy_identity,

AttributeError: 'JointType' object has no attribute 'encode'

Removing the .encode, as suggested by @mkoval , seems to fix this. Should that change be made permanent?