Wallet generator failing about bitcoinaddress HOT 4 CLOSED

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In [1]: from bitcoinaddress import Wallet
In [2]: wallet = Wallet()
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AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-ea0485b5b53f> in <module>
----> 1 wallet = Wallet()

~/bitcoinaddress/bitcoinaddress/wallet.py in __init__(self, hash_or_seed, testnet)
     13     def __init__(self, hash_or_seed=None, testnet=False):
     14         if hash_or_seed is None: hash_or_seed = Seed()
---> 15         self.key = Key.of(hash_or_seed)
     16         self.address = Address.of(self.key)
     17         self.testnet = testnet

~/bitcoinaddress/bitcoinaddress/key/key.py in of(obj)
     57         key = Key()
     58         if isinstance(obj, Seed):
---> 59             key._from_seed(obj)
     60         else:
     61             try:

~/bitcoinaddress/bitcoinaddress/key/key.py in _from_seed(self, seed)
     77         self._generate_digest()
     78         self._generate_hex()
---> 79         self.mainnet.generate_wif()
     80         self.mainnet.generate_wif_compressed()
     81         self.testnet.generate_wif()

~/bitcoinaddress/bitcoinaddress/key/key.py in generate_wif(self)
     28 
     29         def generate_wif(self):
---> 30             self.wif = self.instance._generate_wif(Key.MainNet.PREFIX)
     31 
     32         def generate_wif_compressed(self):

~/bitcoinaddress/bitcoinaddress/key/key.py in _generate_wif(self, prefix)
    110         digest = prefix + self.digest
    111         c = checksum(digest)
--> 112         return base58.b58encode(digest + c).decode('utf-8')
    113 
    114     def _generate_wif_compressed(self, prefix, suffix):

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

In [3]: 

python -m venv new_env
cd new_env
source bin/activate
pip install bitcoinaddress
python /path/to/test.py <---  with wallet = Wallet()