1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gluster/gfapi.py b/gluster/gfapi.py
index 96088ff..bd6f240 100755
--- a/gluster/gfapi.py
+++ b/gluster/gfapi.py
@@ -319,7 +319,10 @@ class File(object):
         rbuf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(size)
         ret = api.glfs_read(self.fd, rbuf, size, 0)
         if ret > 0:
-            return rbuf
+            # In python 2.x, read() always returns a string. It's really upto
+            # the consumer to decode this string into whatever encoding it was
+            # written with.
+            return rbuf.value[:ret]
         elif ret < 0:
             err = ctypes.get_errno()
             raise OSError(err, os.strerror(err))