diff --git a/examples/frameworks/django/testing/testing/apps/someapp/views.py b/examples/frameworks/django/testing/testing/apps/someapp/views.py
index ba61d1e3..abf77545 100755
--- a/examples/frameworks/django/testing/testing/apps/someapp/views.py
+++ b/examples/frameworks/django/testing/testing/apps/someapp/views.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import io
 import os
 from django import forms
 from django.http import HttpResponse
-from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
+from django.shortcuts import render
 from django.template import RequestContext
 
 
@@ -38,12 +38,14 @@ def home(request):
     else:
         form = MsgForm()
 
-    return render_to_response('home.html', {
+
+
+    return render(request, 'home.html', {
         'form': form,
         'subject': subject,
         'message': message,
         'size': size
-    }, RequestContext(request))
+    })
 
 
 def acsv(request):
diff --git a/examples/frameworks/django/testing/testing/settings.py b/examples/frameworks/django/testing/testing/settings.py
index d978daa2..a26eaa76 100644
--- a/examples/frameworks/django/testing/testing/settings.py
+++ b/examples/frameworks/django/testing/testing/settings.py
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
 )
 
 # Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody.
-SECRET_KEY = ''
+SECRET_KEY = 'what'
+
 
 # List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
 TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
@@ -107,6 +108,17 @@ ROOT_URLCONF = 'testing.urls'
 # Python dotted path to the WSGI application used by Django's runserver.
 WSGI_APPLICATION = 'testing.wsgi.application'
 
+TEMPLATES = [
+    {
+        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
+        'DIRS': [],
+        'APP_DIRS': True,
+        'OPTIONS': {
+            # ... some options here ...
+        },
+    },
+]
+
 TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
     # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
     # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
diff --git a/examples/frameworks/django/testing/testing/urls.py b/examples/frameworks/django/testing/testing/urls.py
index 4c06a38f..bb95bf06 100644
--- a/examples/frameworks/django/testing/testing/urls.py
+++ b/examples/frameworks/django/testing/testing/urls.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ urlpatterns = [
     # url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
 
     # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
-    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
+    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
 
     url(r'^', include("testing.apps.someapp.urls")),
 ]
diff --git a/examples/frameworks/flask_sendfile.py b/examples/frameworks/flask_sendfile.py
index fe3d243a..81cde5d8 100644
--- a/examples/frameworks/flask_sendfile.py
+++ b/examples/frameworks/flask_sendfile.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ app = Flask(__name__)
 @app.route('/')
 def index():
     buf = io.BytesIO()
-    buf.write('hello world')
+    buf.write(b'hello world')
     buf.seek(0)
     return send_file(buf,
                      attachment_filename="testing.txt",
diff --git a/examples/longpoll.py b/examples/longpoll.py
index 1bab8eaa..5b5d8c96 100644
--- a/examples/longpoll.py
+++ b/examples/longpoll.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import time
 class TestIter(object):
 
     def __iter__(self):
-        lines = ['line 1\n', 'line 2\n']
+        lines = [b'line 1\n', b'line 2\n']
         for line in lines:
             yield line
             time.sleep(20)
diff --git a/examples/websocket/gevent_websocket.py b/examples/websocket/gevent_websocket.py
index 763f23ec..e0179c0e 100644
--- a/examples/websocket/gevent_websocket.py
+++ b/examples/websocket/gevent_websocket.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import collections
 import errno
 import re
-from hashlib import sha1
+import hashlib
 import base64
 from base64 import b64encode, b64decode
 import socket
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ import logging
 from socket import error as SocketError
 
 import gevent
-from gunicorn.workers.async import ALREADY_HANDLED
+from gunicorn.workers.base_async import ALREADY_HANDLED
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-WS_KEY = "258EAFA5-E914-47DA-95CA-C5AB0DC85B11"
+WS_KEY = b"258EAFA5-E914-47DA-95CA-C5AB0DC85B11"
 
 class WebSocketWSGI(object):
     def __init__(self, handler):
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ class WebSocketWSGI(object):
             if ws_extensions:
                 handshake_reply += 'Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: %s\r\n' % ', '.join(ws_extensions)
 
+            key_hash = hashlib.sha1()
+            key_hash.update(key.encode())
+            key_hash.update(WS_KEY)
+
             handshake_reply +=  (
                 "Sec-WebSocket-Origin: %s\r\n"
                 "Sec-WebSocket-Location: ws://%s%s\r\n"
@@ -90,7 +94,7 @@ class WebSocketWSGI(object):
                     environ.get('HTTP_HOST'),
                     ws.path,
                     version,
-                    base64.b64encode(sha1(key + WS_KEY).digest())
+                    base64.b64encode(key_hash.digest()).decode()
                 ))
 
         else:
@@ -102,13 +106,14 @@ class WebSocketWSGI(object):
                             environ.get('HTTP_HOST'),
                             ws.path))
 
-        sock.sendall(handshake_reply)
+        sock.sendall(handshake_reply.encode())
 
         try:
             self.handler(ws)
-        except socket.error as e:
-            if e[0] != errno.EPIPE:
-                raise
+        except BrokenPipeError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            raise
         # use this undocumented feature of grainbows to ensure that it
         # doesn't barf on the fact that we didn't call start_response
         return ALREADY_HANDLED
@@ -163,6 +168,8 @@ class WebSocket(object):
         """
         if base64:
             buf = b64encode(buf)
+        else:
+            buf = buf.encode()
 
         b1 = 0x80 | (opcode & 0x0f) # FIN + opcode
         payload_len = len(buf)
@@ -375,7 +382,7 @@ class WebSocket(object):
                 return None
             # no parsed messages, must mean buf needs more data
             delta = self.socket.recv(8096)
-            if delta == '':
+            if delta == b'':
                 return None
             self._buf += delta
             msgs = self._parse_messages()
@@ -395,7 +402,7 @@ class WebSocket(object):
 
         elif self.version == 76 and not self.websocket_closed:
             try:
-                self.socket.sendall("\xff\x00")
+                self.socket.sendall(b"\xff\x00")
             except SocketError:
                 # Sometimes, like when the remote side cuts off the connection,
                 # we don't care about this.
@@ -425,7 +432,7 @@ def handle(ws):
             ws.send(m)
 
     elif ws.path == '/data':
-        for i in xrange(10000):
+        for i in range(10000):
             ws.send("0 %s %s\n" % (i, random.random()))
             gevent.sleep(0.1)
 
@@ -439,7 +446,7 @@ def app(environ, start_response):
                      'websocket.html')).read()
         data = data % environ
         start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/html'),
-                                 ('Content-Length', len(data))])
-        return [data]
+                                 ('Content-Length', str(len(data)))])
+        return [data.encode()]
     else:
         return wsapp(environ, start_response)
diff --git a/examples/websocket/websocket.py b/examples/websocket/websocket.py
index 4f5c8199..8c969b60 100644
--- a/examples/websocket/websocket.py
+++ b/examples/websocket/websocket.py
@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ import logging
 from socket import error as SocketError
 
 import eventlet
-from gunicorn.workers.async import ALREADY_HANDLED
+from gunicorn.workers.base_async import ALREADY_HANDLED
 from eventlet import pools
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-WS_KEY = "258EAFA5-E914-47DA-95CA-C5AB0DC85B11"
+WS_KEY = b"258EAFA5-E914-47DA-95CA-C5AB0DC85B11"
 
 class WebSocketWSGI(object):
     def __init__(self, handler):
@@ -81,6 +81,10 @@ class WebSocketWSGI(object):
             if ws_extensions:
                 handshake_reply += 'Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: %s\r\n' % ', '.join(ws_extensions)
 
+            key_hash = sha1()
+            key_hash.update(key.encode())
+            key_hash.update(WS_KEY)
+
             handshake_reply +=  (
                 "Sec-WebSocket-Origin: %s\r\n"
                 "Sec-WebSocket-Location: ws://%s%s\r\n"
@@ -91,7 +95,7 @@ class WebSocketWSGI(object):
                     environ.get('HTTP_HOST'),
                     ws.path,
                     version,
-                    base64.b64encode(sha1(key + WS_KEY).digest())
+                    base64.b64encode(key_hash.digest()).decode()
                 ))
 
         else:
@@ -103,13 +107,14 @@ class WebSocketWSGI(object):
                             environ.get('HTTP_HOST'),
                             ws.path))
 
-        sock.sendall(handshake_reply)
+        sock.sendall(handshake_reply.encode())
 
         try:
             self.handler(ws)
-        except socket.error as e:
-            if e[0] != errno.EPIPE:
-                raise
+        except BrokenPipeError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            raise
         # use this undocumented feature of grainbows to ensure that it
         # doesn't barf on the fact that we didn't call start_response
         return ALREADY_HANDLED
@@ -164,6 +169,8 @@ class WebSocket(object):
         """
         if base64:
             buf = b64encode(buf)
+        else:
+            buf = buf.encode()
 
         b1 = 0x80 | (opcode & 0x0f) # FIN + opcode
         payload_len = len(buf)
@@ -376,7 +383,7 @@ class WebSocket(object):
                 return None
             # no parsed messages, must mean buf needs more data
             delta = self.socket.recv(8096)
-            if delta == '':
+            if delta == b'':
                 return None
             self._buf += delta
             msgs = self._parse_messages()
@@ -396,7 +403,7 @@ class WebSocket(object):
 
         elif self.version == 76 and not self.websocket_closed:
             try:
-                self.socket.sendall("\xff\x00")
+                self.socket.sendall(b"\xff\x00")
             except SocketError:
                 # Sometimes, like when the remote side cuts off the connection,
                 # we don't care about this.
@@ -425,7 +432,7 @@ def handle(ws):
             ws.send(m)
 
     elif ws.path == '/data':
-        for i in xrange(10000):
+        for i in range(10000):
             ws.send("0 %s %s\n" % (i, random.random()))
             eventlet.sleep(0.1)
 
@@ -439,7 +446,7 @@ def app(environ, start_response):
                      'websocket.html')).read()
         data = data % environ
         start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/html'),
-                                 ('Content-Length', len(data))])
-        return [data]
+                                 ('Content-Length', str(len(data)))])
+        return [data.encode()]
     else:
         return wsapp(environ, start_response)