From 2924aab5a5308da30e2a801dbb47a976a95e4bee 2014-04-16 21:31:22
From: MinRK <benjaminrk@gmail.com>
Date: 2014-04-16 21:31:22
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #5505: Make backport_pr work on Python 3

This turned out to be pretty easy.

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diff --git a/tools/backport_pr.py b/tools/backport_pr.py
index 303c8f5..cf59cda 100755
--- a/tools/backport_pr.py
+++ b/tools/backport_pr.py
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ import re
 import sys
 
 from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, check_call, check_output
-from urllib import urlopen
+try:
+    from urllib.request import urlopen
+except:
+    from urllib import urlopen
 
 from gh_api import (
     get_issues_list,
@@ -45,8 +48,8 @@ def find_rejects(root='.'):
 def get_current_branch():
     branches = check_output(['git', 'branch'])
     for branch in branches.splitlines():
-        if branch.startswith('*'):
-            return branch[1:].strip()
+        if branch.startswith(b'*'):
+            return branch[1:].strip().decode('utf-8')
 
 def backport_pr(branch, num, project='ipython/ipython'):
     current_branch = get_current_branch()