2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/test.py b/test.py
index cf40b92..2d1d29d 100755
--- a/test.py
+++ b/test.py
@@ -377,7 +377,10 @@ class RequestLogWSGIFilterTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def testSimple(self):
         app = applications.StaticContent("200 Found",
                 [("Content-Type", "text/plain")], b"nothing")
-        log = io.StringIO()
+        if isinstance("x", bytes):
+            log = io.BytesIO()
+        else:
+            log = io.StringIO()
         logfilter = filters.RequestLogWSGIFilter.creator(log)
         app = filters.WSGIFilterMiddleware(app, logfilter)
         req = Request(self)
diff --git a/wsgitools/filters.py b/wsgitools/filters.py
index 882a0bf..471c949 100644
--- a/wsgitools/filters.py
+++ b/wsgitools/filters.py
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ class RequestLogWSGIFilter(BaseWSGIFilter):
         """Returns a function creating L{RequestLogWSGIFilter}s on given log
         file. log has to be a file-like object.
         @type log: file-like
+        @param log: elements of type str are written to the log. That means in
+                Py3.X the contents are decoded and in Py2.X the log is assumed
+                to be encoded in latin1. This follows the spirit of WSGI.
         @type flush: bool
         @param flush: if True, invoke the flush method on log after each
                 write invocation