Commit 39198109 authored by Marti Raudsepp's avatar Marti Raudsepp Committed by Tim Graham
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[1.5.x] [py3] str.decode does not exist; str.encode was intended

Backport of fba6df19 from master
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@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ under Python 3, use the :func:`str` builtin::
    str('my string')

In Python 3, there aren't any automatic conversions between ``str`` and
``bytes``, and the :mod:`codecs` module became more strict. :meth:`str.decode`
``bytes``, and the :mod:`codecs` module became more strict. :meth:`str.encode`
always returns ``bytes``, and ``bytes.decode`` always returns ``str``. As a
consequence, the following pattern is sometimes necessary::