python: ssl.get_server_certificate() returns unicode type in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2

Issue

• python: ssl.get_server_certificate() returns unicode type in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
• On RHEL7.1 ssl.get_server_certificate() returns a string object.
• On RHEL7.2 the same function returns a unicode object.

[user@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.1 (Maipo)
[user@localhost ~]$ python <<< "import ssl; print type(ssl.get_server_certificate(('<REDACTED>', 443)))"
<type 'str'>

[user@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo)
[user@localhost ~]$ python <<< "import ssl; print type(ssl.get_server_certificate(('<REDACTED>', 443)))"
<type 'unicode'>