From: Aaron Hill <aa1ronham@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 23:46:09 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Properly encode filter_level
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Properly encode filter_level

Closes #782
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diff --git a/tweepy/streaming.py b/tweepy/streaming.py
index 3d3fb47..2fdab49 100644
--- a/tweepy/streaming.py
+++ b/tweepy/streaming.py
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ class Stream(object):
         if languages:
             self.body['language'] = u','.join(map(str, languages))
         if filter_level:
-            self.body['filter_level'] = unicode(filter_level, encoding)
+            self.body['filter_level'] = filter_level.encode(encoding)
         self.session.params = {'delimited': 'length'}
         self.host = 'stream.twitter.com'
         self._start(async)