Problems in Windows with byte <-> str variable type conflict throwing errors

[ValleyLad]

Has anyone got this to work in Windows?
I'm having this problem:

from practNLPTools.tools import Annotator
annotator = Annotator()
sent = 'The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain'
annotator.getAnnotations(sent)['srl']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Users\super\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\practNLPTools\tools.py", line 208, in getAnnotations
no_verbs=len(senna_tags[0].split("\t"))-6
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

Now even when I use ".encode" or "bytes()" around the string objects in line 208, it still throws the same error at me.

[radurevutchi]

I am having the exact same issue on Linux.