diff --git a/unittests/test_authentication_auth_token.py b/unittests/test_authentication_auth_token.py
index 15e54121fc0d7b5c2be645cdb88bc20804a10980..d0eb6b90883951af584d42a80e319c14891f6e50 100644
--- a/unittests/test_authentication_auth_token.py
+++ b/unittests/test_authentication_auth_token.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def test_configure_connection():
     c._delegate_connection.resources.append(request_has_auth_token)
     assert c._authenticator.auth_token == "[request token]"
     response = c._http_request(method="GET", path="test")
-    assert response.read() == "ok"
+    assert response.read().decode() == "ok"
     assert c._authenticator.auth_token == "[response token]"
 
 
diff --git a/unittests/test_authentication_unauthenticated.py b/unittests/test_authentication_unauthenticated.py
index 52146b08ed4e1026660eebacedf348aeb2ff2721..45a709fcc62b609a97de7e87dd6c6f6ac94a55a1 100644
--- a/unittests/test_authentication_unauthenticated.py
+++ b/unittests/test_authentication_unauthenticated.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ def test_configure_connection():
 
     assert c._authenticator.auth_token is None
     response = c._http_request(method="GET", path="test")
-    assert response.read() == "ok"
+    assert response.read().decode() == "ok"
     mock.method.assert_called_once()
     assert c._authenticator.auth_token is None
 
diff --git a/unittests/test_connection.py b/unittests/test_connection.py
index 16370f00b7d5e3389582befaac1762b1d2992fcf..ee564ea033f9afc80522d75a85557f70819ece1e 100644
--- a/unittests/test_connection.py
+++ b/unittests/test_connection.py
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ def test_getter_status():
 def test_read():
     response = test_init_response()
     tru(hasattr(response, "read"))
-    eq(response.read(), "Body")
+    eq(response.read().decode(), "Body")
 
 
 def test_getter_session_token():
diff --git a/unittests/test_entity.py b/unittests/test_entity.py
index 1e88702ac016d7dcfdf00919dd0f93b5d3345e00..b62ce21955acd3cde668da55551e6ce157a5f58a 100644
--- a/unittests/test_entity.py
+++ b/unittests/test_entity.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ class TestEntity(unittest.TestCase):
         """
         parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_comments=True)
         entity = Entity._from_xml(Entity(),
-                                  etree.parse("unittests/test_record.xml",
+                                  etree.parse("unittests/test_record.xml".encode(),
                                               parser).getroot())
 
         self.assertEqual(entity.role, "Record")