Removed an extra attempt to encode the payload that I missed when I was refactoring

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/jwt/__init__.py b/jwt/__init__.py
index 86d95a3..78d4219 100644
--- a/jwt/__init__.py
+++ b/jwt/__init__.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2015 José Padilla'
 from .api_jwt import (
     encode, decode, register_algorithm, unregister_algorithm, PyJWT
 )
+from .api_jws import PyJWS
 from .exceptions import (
     InvalidTokenError, DecodeError, InvalidAudienceError,
     ExpiredSignatureError, ImmatureSignatureError, InvalidIssuedAtError,
diff --git a/jwt/api_jws.py b/jwt/api_jws.py
index c26044a..bb2787b 100644
--- a/jwt/api_jws.py
+++ b/jwt/api_jws.py
@@ -88,10 +88,7 @@ class PyJWS(object):
         ).encode('utf-8')
 
         segments.append(base64url_encode(json_header))
-
-        json_payload = payload.encode('utf-8')
-
-        segments.append(base64url_encode(json_payload))
+        segments.append(base64url_encode(payload))
 
         # Segments
         signing_input = b'.'.join(segments)