diff --git a/snovault/embed.py b/snovault/embed.py
index 20d0c8ce5..fb6d3e590 100644
--- a/snovault/embed.py
+++ b/snovault/embed.py
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 import logging
 from copy import deepcopy
 from posixpath import join
-from pyramid.compat import (
-    native_,
-    unquote_bytes_to_wsgi,
-)
 from pyramid.httpexceptions import HTTPNotFound, HTTPServerError
 import pyramid.request
 from .crud_views import collection_add as sno_collection_add
 from .interfaces import COLLECTIONS, CONNECTION
+from .pyramid_compat import (
+    native_,
+    unquote_bytes_to_wsgi,
+)
 from .resources import Collection
 from .schema_utils import validate_request
 from dcicutils.misc_utils import check_true
diff --git a/snovault/pyramid_compat.py b/snovault/pyramid_compat.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8c38e8c38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/snovault/pyramid_compat.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Not that pyramid.compat disappeared with pyramid 2.0.02 (during move to Python 3.12).
+
+from urllib.parse import unquote_to_bytes
+
+text_type = str
+
+
+def ascii_native_(s):
+    if isinstance(s, text_type):
+        s = s.encode('ascii')
+    return str(s, 'ascii', 'strict')
+
+
+def native_(s, encoding='latin-1', errors='strict'):
+    """ If ``s`` is an instance of ``text_type``, return
+    ``s``, otherwise return ``str(s, encoding, errors)``"""
+    if isinstance(s, text_type):
+        return s
+    return str(s, encoding, errors)
+
+
+def unquote_bytes_to_wsgi(bytestring):
+    return unquote_to_bytes(bytestring).decode('latin-1')
diff --git a/snovault/tests/test_views.py b/snovault/tests/test_views.py
index ab641ea1b..6e7fccc06 100644
--- a/snovault/tests/test_views.py
+++ b/snovault/tests/test_views.py
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 
 from base64 import b64encode
 from jsonschema import Draft202012Validator
-# from pyramid.compat import ascii_native_
 from uuid import uuid4
 
 from ..interfaces import TYPES
+from ..pyramid_compat import ascii_native_
 from ..util import mappings_use_nested
 
 from .testing_views import (
@@ -19,12 +19,6 @@
 
 TYPE_NAMES = ['TestingPostPutPatchSno', 'TestingDownload']
 
-# pyramid.compat disappeared with pyramid 2.0.02 (during move to Python 3.12).
-def ascii_native_(s):
-    if isinstance(s, str):
-        s = s.encode('ascii')
-    return str(s, 'ascii', 'strict')
-
 
 def get_parameterized_names():
     """ Get all item types from schema names """