diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 121feb7..0d434a0 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ or with python version 3:
 
 .. code:: console
 
-  python -c 'import urllib.request; print(urllib.request.urlopen("https://bootstrap.saltstack.com").read())' > bootstrap-salt.sh
+  python -c 'import urllib.request; print(urllib.request.urlopen("https://bootstrap.saltstack.com").read().decode("ascii"))' > bootstrap-salt.sh
 
 Install using fetch
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