On Jan 26, 2016, at 01:12 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >That's not the problem at all. Read the error message again. Read the >source line it points to. Now look at where rv comes from: > >>>> import subprocess >>>> rv = subprocess.Popen(['locale', '-a'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, >... stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0] >>>> type(rv) ><class 'bytes'>
For Python 3, try adding `universal_newlines=True` to any subprocess call. You'll get back a str. Cheers, -Barry
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