metomi/rose — pull request #997 by matthewrmshin (2013-11-08 15:58:11+00:00)
Title: rose bush: cast ws args to str before shlex

It appears that in newer version of cherrypy, query arguments are
encoded in Unicode. Unfortunately, using `shlex.split` on a Unicode
string gives garbage. Casting the arguments into a `str` solves the
problem.