Boto: TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes' when using boto.rds2.describe_db_instances() using python 3.4.1

[henin]

want to get all the running instances in a AWS environment. I am using python 3.3. i had used boto.rds earlier which has a method called rds2.get_all_dbinstances(). But i am migrating now to rds2. when i try to run the above code using python interpreter usage :python2 filename.py : i get no error. the program works fine. But using Bash shell usage : ./filename.py : i get the error :

TypeError: File "/Users/heninkarkada/Documents/repositories/jaws/b.py", line 5, in
raw=con.describe_db_instances(db_instance_identifier=None)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/boto/rds2/layer1.py", line 1512, in describe_db_instances
path='/', params=params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/boto/rds2/layer1.py", line 3764, in _make_request
return json.loads(body)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python3/3.4.1_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/json/__init__.py", line 312, in loads
s.class.name))
TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes' at line no:3
Can anyone tell me why this thing is happening? And is RDS2 compatible with python3 , so can you please fix this defect Advance thanks

[swimmadude66]

This issue is still happening, and can be fixed by:

body = response.read().decode('utf-8')

at line 3761 of rds2/layer1.py

[rbruggem]

Any updates on this?

[stefanhorning]

Still necessary and swimmadude66's fix still works, line has moved to 3774 in the meantime. Surprised this still wasn't fixed!