astropy/astropy — pull request #1956 by astrofrog (2014-01-11 09:34:30+00:00)
Title: Add an option to run all tests with the 'unicode_literals' option

@taldcroft - this is for you :)

This is a very primitive solution, but it seems to work (though of course, some tests are failing, and on my machine one of the FITS tests segfaults).

cc @mdboom @embray