guix-play/gnu/packages/patches/python-file-double-encoding-bug.patch

Fix bug that breaks file's Python bindings when using Python 3. This patch
should not be applied when using Python 2.

Copied from upstream source repository:

https://github.com/file/file/commit/73e043d2a986234b187a00ed0c8d1f7bf83df372

From 73e043d2a986234b187a00ed0c8d1f7bf83df372 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:10:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] PR/562: Reiner Herrmann: Avoid double encoding with python3

---
 python/magic.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/magic.py b/python/magic.py
index c48f7d5..b0f7a17 100644
--- a/python/magic.py
+++ b/python/magic.py
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ class Magic(object):
         if isinstance(r, str):
             return r
         else:
-            return str(r).encode('utf-8')
+            return str(r, 'utf-8')
 
     def descriptor(self, fd):
         """
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ class Magic(object):
         if isinstance(r, str):
             return r
         else:
-            return str(r).encode('utf-8')
+            return str(r, 'utf-8')
 
     def error(self):
         """
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ class Magic(object):
         if isinstance(e, str):
             return e
         else:
-            return str(e).encode('utf-8')
+            return str(e, 'utf-8')
 
     def setflags(self, flags):
         """
-- 
2.10.1