From 544959026a4fe4434942d080c1fbe4df21b3e746 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Awais Qureshi <awais.qureshi@arbisoft.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 19:40:33 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] BOM-937 Open a file in read binary mode to avoid bytes
 issues.

---
 common/test/acceptance/fixtures/course.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/common/test/acceptance/fixtures/course.py b/common/test/acceptance/fixtures/course.py
index 12834b1a66..67cbc5b645 100644
--- a/common/test/acceptance/fixtures/course.py
+++ b/common/test/acceptance/fixtures/course.py
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ class CourseFixture(XBlockContainerFixture):
         for asset_name in self._assets:
             asset_file_path = test_dir + '/data/uploads/' + asset_name
 
-            asset_file = open(asset_file_path)
+            asset_file = open(asset_file_path, mode='rb')
             files = {'file': (asset_name, asset_file, mimetypes.guess_type(asset_file_path)[0])}
 
             headers = {