In python 3, standard str's are Unicode. You should use six for
compatability here
On 11 Dec 2013 19:11, "Denis A. Engemann" <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In mne/preprocessing/ica.py:
>
> > @@ -1380,7 +1380,7 @@ def _deserialize(str_, outer_sep=';', inner_sep=':'):
> >      for mapping in str_.split(outer_sep):
> >          k, v = mapping.split(inner_sep)
> >          vv = json.loads(v)
> > -        out[k] = vv if not isinstance(vv, unicode) else str(vv)
> > +        out[k] = vv
>
> ... and I can look it up.
>
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