AttributeError when attempting to initialize dialog UI

[SzieberthAdam]

Plugin failed to start after QGIS restart:

2017-11-28T15:18:27  1 Traceback (most recent call last):
       File "C:/OSGEO4W/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line 334, in startPlugin
         plugins[packageName] = package.classFactory(iface)
       File "C:/Documents and Settings/ti2/.qgis2/python/plugins\interactive_map_tracking\__init__.py", line 34, in classFactory
         from .interactive_map_tracking import interactive_map_tracking
       File "C:/OSGEO4W/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line 608, in _import
         mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
       File "C:/Documents and Settings/ti2/.qgis2/python/plugins\interactive_map_tracking\interactive_map_tracking.py", line 28, in <module>
         from interactive_map_tracking_dialog import interactive_map_trackingDialog
       File "C:/OSGEO4W/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line 608, in _import
         mod = _builtin_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
       File "C:/Documents and Settings/ti2/.qgis2/python/plugins\interactive_map_tracking\interactive_map_tracking_dialog.py", line 29, in <module>
         os.path.dirname(__file__), 'interactive_map_tracking_dialog_base.ui'))
       File "C:\OSGEO4W\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\PyQt4\uic\__init__.py", line 210, in loadUiType
         winfo = compiler.UICompiler().compileUi(uifile, code_string, from_imports, resource_suffix)
       File "C:\OSGEO4W\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\PyQt4\uic\Compiler\compiler.py", line 139, in compileUi
         w = self.parse(input_stream, resource_suffix)
       File "C:\OSGEO4W\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\PyQt4\uic\uiparser.py", line 992, in parse
         actor(elem)
       File "C:\OSGEO4W\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\PyQt4\uic\uiparser.py", line 890, in readResources
         for include in elem.getiterator("include"):
       File "C:\OSGEO4W\apps\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 486, in getiterator
         PendingDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2
       File "C:/OSGEO4W/apps/qgis/./python\qgis\utils.py", line 78, in showWarning
         message = unicode(str(message).decode('cp1250'))
       File "C:\OSGEO4W\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\future\types\newstr.py", line 330, in __getattribute__
         raise AttributeError("decode method has been disabled in newstr")
     AttributeError: decode method has been disabled in newstr