--- brltty-4.5/Bindings/Python/brlapi.pyx	2013-06-20 07:32:09.000000000 +0000
+++ brltty-4.5/Bindings/Python/brlapi.pyx	2013-06-20 07:32:52.064634045 +0000
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@
 		if (type(dots) == unicode):
 			dots = dots.encode('latin1')
 		if (len(dots) < dispSize):
-			dots = dots + b"".center(dispSize - len(dots), '\0')
+			dots = dots + "".center(dispSize - len(dots), '\0')
 		c_dots = dots
 		c_udots = <unsigned char *>c_dots
 		c_brlapi.Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS