Fixed #73. Python < 2.6.5 does not support unicode as keyword arguments names.

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index e232ae2..09ec763 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -4,13 +4,20 @@ News
 2.0.15 (unreleased)
 -------------------
 
+- Fixed #73. Python < 2.6.5 does not support unicode as keyword arguments names.
+  [Stepan Kolesnik]
+
 - Fixed #92 You can now override TestApp.JSONEncoder to use a custom encoder
+  [gawel]
 
 - Fixed #93 Support basic authentication
+  [gawel]
 
 - Fixed #107 Explicit error message when WSGIProxy2 is not installer
+  [gawel]
 
 - Fixed #103 Broken "Edit me on GitHub" links in documentation
+  [gawel]
 
 
 2.0.14 (2014-01-23)
diff --git a/webtest/forms.py b/webtest/forms.py
index 82ece13..a6df599 100644
--- a/webtest/forms.py
+++ b/webtest/forms.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 """Helpers to fill and submit forms."""
 
 import re
+import sys
 
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 from webtest.compat import OrderedDict
@@ -444,6 +445,12 @@ class Form(object):
 
             FieldClass = self.FieldClass.classes.get(tag_type,
                                                      self.FieldClass)
+
+            # https://github.com/Pylons/webtest/issues/73
+            if sys.version_info[:2] <= (2, 6):
+                attrs = dict((k.encode('utf-8') if isinstance(k, unicode)
+                              else k, v) for k, v in attrs.items())
+
             if tag == 'input':
                 if tag_type == 'radio':
                     field = fields.get(name)