Flask sessions and unicode_literals

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If you had tried to use Flask sessions and got something like that:

File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 889, in __call__
  return self.wsgi_app(environ, start_response)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 871, in wsgi_app
  with self.request_context(environ):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 836, in request_context
  return _RequestContext(self, environ)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/flask/ctx.py", line 33, in __init__
  self.session = app.open_session(self.request)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 431, in open_session
  secret_key=key)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/werkzeug/contrib/securecookie.py", line 308, in load_cookie
  return cls.unserialize(data, secret_key)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/werkzeug/contrib/securecookie.py", line 255, in unserialize
  mac = hmac(secret_key, None, cls.hash_method)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/hmac.py", line 133, in new
  return HMAC(key, msg, digestmod)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/hmac.py", line 72, in __init__
  self.outer.update(key.translate(trans_5C))

…you might be obscured. Fear not! The reason may lurk in

from __future__ import unicode_literals

Just declare your SECRET_KEY as a bytes object and get happy again!

SECRET_KEY = b'smthverrysekret'

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