=== modified file 'libcloud/compute/drivers/ibm_sce.py'
--- libcloud/compute/drivers/ibm_sce.py	2012-05-16 02:13:10 +0000
+++ libcloud/compute/drivers/ibm_sce.py	2012-06-02 08:55:00 +0000
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
     def add_default_headers(self, headers):
         headers['Accept'] = 'text/xml'
         headers['Authorization'] = ('Basic %s' % (base64.b64encode(b('%s:%s' %
-                                                 (self.user_id, self.key)))))
+                                                 (self.user_id, self.key)))).decode('utf-8'))
         if not 'Content-Type' in headers:
             headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/xml'
         return headers