diff --git a/MySQLdb/cursors.py b/MySQLdb/cursors.py
index bc1334b7..4d807a96 100644
--- a/MySQLdb/cursors.py
+++ b/MySQLdb/cursors.py
@@ -22,6 +22,23 @@
     text_type = str
 
 
+def convert_to_str(var):
+    """
+    Convert various datatypes to str
+    Required for Python 3
+    """
+    if isinstance(var,tuple):
+        return tuple(convert_to_str(item) for item in var)
+    if isinstance(var,list):
+        return ([convert_to_str(item) for item in var])
+    elif isinstance(var,dict):
+        return {convert_to_str(key):convert_to_str(value) for key,value in var.items()}
+    elif isinstance(var,bytes):
+        return var.decode('utf-8', 'ignore')
+    
+    return var
+
+
 #: Regular expression for :meth:`Cursor.executemany`.
 #: executemany only supports simple bulk insert.
 #: You can use it to load large dataset.
@@ -444,6 +461,9 @@ def fetchall(self):
         else:
             result = self._rows
         self.rownumber = len(self._rows)
+        if not PY2:
+            db = self._get_db()
+            result = tuple(convert_to_str(result))
         return result
 
     def scroll(self, value, mode='relative'):
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cd91383d..317a55ee 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@
 
 [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python.png)](http://travis-ci.org/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python)
 
+### This is a fork of a fork
+
+This fork corrects a byte string error between PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python, Python3, and Saltstack. This error prevented the Saltstack mysql_grants module from working correctly.
+
+
+
+### From the original
+
 This is a fork of [MySQLdb1](https://github.com/farcepest/MySQLdb1).
 
 This project adds Python 3 support and bug fixes.