From 2b5fffa751c0a6ec364e66cc648f456d28b3a8a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Coca <brian.coca+git@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 01:41:23 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] updated to use to_unicode as per feedback

---
 lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
index 4ed496fbe98..7c8d6a1bb72 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ class ActionBase(with_metaclass(ABCMeta, object)):
             else:
                 x = remote_stat['checksum'] # if 1, file is missing
         except AnsibleError as e:
-            errormsg = to_bytes(e)
+            errormsg = to_unicode(e)
             if errormsg.endswith('Permission denied'):
                 x = "2" # cannot read file
             elif errormsg.endswith('MODULE FAILURE'):