ipython/ipython — pull request #4043 by minrk (2013-08-15 19:48:21+00:00)
Title: don't 'restore_bytes' in from_JSON

It makes no sense to turn base64-encoded unicode strings into base64-encoded byte strings.
I can't think why we do this, but we should be very careful about testing before merging this fix.

fixes the issue tested in #4036.