@@ -438,6 +438,7 @@ else:

 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule

 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import BOOLEANS_FALSE, BOOLEANS_TRUE

 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import xrange

+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_bytes

 # LXC_COMPRESSION_MAP is a map of available compression types when creating

@@ -572,7 +573,7 @@ def create_script(command):

     (fd, script_file) = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix='lxc-attach-script')

     f = os.fdopen(fd, 'wb')

     try:

-        f.write(ATTACH_TEMPLATE % {'container_command': command})

+        f.write(to_bytes(ATTACH_TEMPLATE % {'container_command': command}, errors='surrogate_or_strict'))

         f.flush()

     finally:

         f.close()

@@ -724,7 +725,7 @@ class LxcContainerManagement(object):

         container_config_file = self.container.config_file_name

         with open(container_config_file, 'rb') as f:

-            container_config = f.readlines()

+            container_config = to_text(f.read(), errors='surrogate_or_strict').splitlines()

         # Note used ast literal_eval because AnsibleModule does not provide for

         # adequate dictionary parsing.

@@ -765,7 +766,7 @@ class LxcContainerManagement(object):

                 self.container.stop()

             with open(container_config_file, 'wb') as f:

-                f.writelines(container_config)

+                f.writelines([to_bytes(line, errors='surrogate_or_strict') for line in container_config])

             self.state_change = True

             if container_state == 'running':