From 7f86bc27d3bae8ee46e47e59657a308738fde41b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenneth Reitz <me@kennethreitz.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 07:44:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] don't decode html

Signed-off-by: Kenneth Reitz <me@kennethreitz.org>
---
 requests_html.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/requests_html.py b/requests_html.py
index 29e84b0..15ad074 100644
--- a/requests_html.py
+++ b/requests_html.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class BaseParser:
         if self._html:
             return self._html
         else:
-            return etree.tostring(self.element, encoding='unicode').decode(self.encoding).strip()
+            return etree.tostring(self.element, encoding='unicode').strip()
 
     @html.setter
     def set_html(self, html):