diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7e99e36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.pyc
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/part1/webserver1.py b/part1/webserver1.py
index 987e6cf..cf0098b 100644
--- a/part1/webserver1.py
+++ b/part1/webserver1.py
@@ -6,16 +6,16 @@
 listen_socket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
 listen_socket.bind((HOST, PORT))
 listen_socket.listen(1)
-print 'Serving HTTP on port %s ...' % PORT
+print('Serving HTTP on port %s ...' % PORT)
 while True:
     client_connection, client_address = listen_socket.accept()
     request = client_connection.recv(1024)
-    print request
+    print(request)
 
     http_response = """\
 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 
 Hello, World!
 """
-    client_connection.sendall(http_response)
+    client_connection.sendall(http_response.encode('utf-8'))
     client_connection.close()
diff --git a/part2/webserver2.py b/part2/webserver2.py
index dfb1723..95304a1 100644
--- a/part2/webserver2.py
+++ b/part2/webserver2.py
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-# Tested with Python 2.7.9, Linux & Mac OS X
+try:
+    from StringIO import StringIO # Python 2
+except:
+    from io import StringIO # Python 3
 import socket
-import StringIO
 import sys
 
-
 class WSGIServer(object):
 
     address_family = socket.AF_INET
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ def handle_one_request(self):
         self.finish_response(result)
 
     def parse_request(self, text):
-        request_line = text.splitlines()[0]
+        request_line = text.splitlines()[0].decode('utf-8')
         request_line = request_line.rstrip('\r\n')
         # Break down the request line into components
         (self.request_method,  # GET
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ def get_environ(self):
         # Required WSGI variables
         env['wsgi.version']      = (1, 0)
         env['wsgi.url_scheme']   = 'http'
-        env['wsgi.input']        = StringIO.StringIO(self.request_data)
+        env['wsgi.input']        = StringIO(self.request_data.decode('utf-8'))
         env['wsgi.errors']       = sys.stderr
         env['wsgi.multithread']  = False
         env['wsgi.multiprocess'] = False
@@ -111,13 +112,14 @@ def finish_response(self, result):
                 response += '{0}: {1}\r\n'.format(*header)
             response += '\r\n'
             for data in result:
-                response += data
+                response += data.decode('utf-8')
             # Print formatted response data a la 'curl -v'
             print(''.join(
                 '> {line}\n'.format(line=line)
                 for line in response.splitlines()
             ))
-            self.client_connection.sendall(response)
+            #self.client_connection.sendall(bytes(response, 'UTF-8'))
+            self.client_connection.sendall(response.encode('utf-8'))
         finally:
             self.client_connection.close()
 
diff --git a/part2/wsgiapp.py b/part2/wsgiapp.py
index d4f948e..4650206 100644
--- a/part2/wsgiapp.py
+++ b/part2/wsgiapp.py
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ def app(environ, start_response):
     status = '200 OK'
     response_headers = [('Content-Type', 'text/plain')]
     start_response(status, response_headers)
-    return ['Hello world from a simple WSGI application!\n']
+    return ['Hello world from a simple WSGI application!\n'.encode('utf-8')]