SIMBAD: return strings in python3 instead of bytes

(plus a really minor edit to ALMA logging)

Author: adamginsburg

astroquery/alma/core.py

@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ def stage_data(self, uids):
         #'ALMA+uid___A002_X391d0b_X7b'
         #payload = [('dataset','ALMA+'+clean_uid(uid)) for uid in uids]
         payload = {'dataset':['ALMA+'+clean_uid(uid) for uid in uids]}
+        self._staging_log['first_post_url'] = url
         log.debug("First request payload: {0}".format(payload))
 
         self._staging_log = {}

astroquery/simbad/core.py

@@ -892,17 +892,20 @@ def nb_errors(self):
 class SimbadVOTableResult(SimbadResult):
     """VOTable-type Simbad result"""
     def __init__(self, txt, verbose=False, pedantic=False):
-        SimbadResult.__init__(self, txt, verbose=verbose)
         self.__pedantic = pedantic
         self.__table = None
-        if not self.verbose:
+        if not verbose:
             commons.suppress_vo_warnings()
+        super(SimbadVOTableResult, self).__init__(txt, verbose=verbose)
 
 
     @property
     def table(self):
         if self.__table is None:
-            self.__table = votable.parse_single_table(BytesIO(self.data.encode('utf8')), pedantic=False).to_table()
+            self.bytes = BytesIO(self.data.encode('utf8'))
+            tbl = votable.parse_single_table(self.bytes, pedantic=False)
+            self.__table = tbl.to_table()
+            self.__table.convert_bytestring_to_unicode()
         return self.__table
 
 bibcode_regex = re.compile(r'query\s+bibcode\s+(wildcard)?\s+([\w]*)')