str(bytes) does not yield the bytestring converted to a string, which is

really really sad.

Author: keflavich

astroquery/alma/utils.py

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def parse_frequency_support(frequency_support_str):
     Quantities representing the frequency range.  It will ignore the resolution
     and polarizations.
     """
-    supports = str(frequency_support_str).split('U')
+    supports = frequency_support_str.tostring().decode('ascii').split('U')
 
     freq_ranges = [(float(sup[0]),
                     float(sup[1].split(',')[0].strip(string.ascii_letters))) *