From 39a57195a279e0566a8ef68da53464578299c5d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugo Lopes Tavares <hltbra@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:38:39 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [lambda] Make JSON load python 3-compatible

---
 moto/awslambda/responses.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/moto/awslambda/responses.py b/moto/awslambda/responses.py
index 73f969890..6f4f76c0f 100644
--- a/moto/awslambda/responses.py
+++ b/moto/awslambda/responses.py
@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ class LambdaResponse(BaseResponse):
 
     def _create_function(self, request, full_url, headers):
         lambda_backend = self.get_lambda_backend(full_url)
-
-        spec = json.loads(request.body)
+        spec = json.loads(request.body.decode('utf-8'))
         try:
             fn = lambda_backend.create_function(spec)
         except ValueError as e: