[Django]-Stop django from automatically unicodifing POST stuff

You can undo this.

Try to use *smart_str* from django.utils.encoding:

from django.utils.encoding import smart_str    
event_dicts_td_json_gz = smart_str( event_dicts_td_json_gz )

View the docs here please: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/unicode/#useful-utility-functions