python3 regression with git commit " Explicit non-ascii content validation"

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/tfoerste/info.py", line 161, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/tfoerste/info.py", line 33, in main
    for s in controller.get_network_statuses():
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/stem/control.py", line 460, in wrapped
    for val in func(self, *args, **kwargs):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/stem/control.py", line 1905, in get_network_statuses
    for desc in desc_iterator:
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/stem/descriptor/router_status_entry.py", line 97, in _parse_file
    yield entry_class(desc_content, validate, *extra_args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/stem/descriptor/router_status_entry.py", line 435, in __init__
    entries = _get_descriptor_components(content, validate)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/stem/descriptor/__init__.py", line 864, in _get_descriptor_components
    value.decode('ascii')
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'