An unicode encoding error was being raised in test_AccountingTransaction_getListBoxColumnList_item_column in Python 2, when the html variable was being passed to the StringIO constructor. The error was only reproducible when running the tests in the CLI.

The problem was that we were using cStringIO module in Python 2, and the string فارسی (farsi) appears in the HTML (probably inside a language picker). cStringIO cannot parse unicode characters that are non-ASCII. The solution is to use "six.StringIO", which uses the (slower, but unicode-compatible) StringIO module in Python 2.