From 38a4734f95d6d6455d11725cd06b291cfe963348 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve Pulec <spulec@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:13:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes for py26 and py33.

---
 moto/kinesis/exceptions.py | 2 +-
 moto/kinesis/responses.py  | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/moto/kinesis/exceptions.py b/moto/kinesis/exceptions.py
index 981a577ec..4ba4c8bf8 100644
--- a/moto/kinesis/exceptions.py
+++ b/moto/kinesis/exceptions.py
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ class ResourceNotFoundError(BadRequest):
 class StreamNotFoundError(ResourceNotFoundError):
     def __init__(self, stream_name):
         super(StreamNotFoundError, self).__init__(
-            'Stream {} under account 123456789012 not found.'.format(stream_name))
+            'Stream {0} under account 123456789012 not found.'.format(stream_name))
diff --git a/moto/kinesis/responses.py b/moto/kinesis/responses.py
index fe57cbfd1..43ed8b06a 100644
--- a/moto/kinesis/responses.py
+++ b/moto/kinesis/responses.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ class KinesisResponse(BaseResponse):
 
     @property
     def parameters(self):
-        return json.loads(self.body)
+        return json.loads(self.body.decode("utf-8"))
 
     @property
     def kinesis_backend(self):