build: Be careful with unicode and byte strings for python3 compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Krampf <johannes.krampf@googlemail.com>
diff --git a/scripts/python23compat.py b/scripts/python23compat.py
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+++ b/scripts/python23compat.py
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+# Helper code for compatibility of the code with both Python 2 and Python 3
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2014 Johannes Krampf <johannes.krampf@googlemail.com>
+#
+# This file may be distributed under the terms of the GNU GPLv3 license.
+
+import sys
+
+if (sys.version_info > (3, 0)):
+ def as_bytes(str):
+ return bytes(str, "ASCII")
+else:
+ def as_bytes(str):
+ return str