Encoding error for sign_data on centos6 Python 2.7.5

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Source StorjOld/dataserv-client#83 (comment)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/btctxstore/api.py", line 191, in sign_unicode
    return self.sign_data(wif, hexdata)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/btctxstore/api.py", line 174, in sign_data
    sigdata = control.sign_data(self.testnet, data, key)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/btctxstore/control.py", line 300, in sign_data
    sig = _add_recovery_params(i, compressed, sigdata)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/btctxstore/control.py", line 283, in _add_recovery_params
    return struct.pack(">B", params) + sigdata
TypeError: Struct() argument 1 must be string, not unicode

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Bug in older python verison. See http://python-future.org/stdlib_incompatibilities.html

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wolfch [11:00]
If I patch the affected line: return struct.pack(">B", params) + sigdata
By encoding the stirng: return struct.pack(">B".encode('ascii'), params) + sigdata
Then everything works fine....

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If that fixes everything, you should make a pull request with your changes.