From 3cfbefe0cfada15c37a629b9ddd2c00b74363100 2014-08-07 21:24:55
From: Thomas Kluyver <takowl@gmail.com>
Date: 2014-08-07 21:24:55
Subject: [PATCH] Cast module name to bytes for Py2 ModuleType constructor

Closes gh-6282

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diff --git a/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py b/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py
index 7d7d0fe..b78654e 100644
--- a/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py
+++ b/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py
@@ -911,7 +911,8 @@ class InteractiveShell(SingletonConfigurable):
         try:
             main_mod = self._main_mod_cache[filename]
         except KeyError:
-            main_mod = self._main_mod_cache[filename] = types.ModuleType(modname,
+            main_mod = self._main_mod_cache[filename] = types.ModuleType(
+                        py3compat.cast_bytes_py2(modname),
                         doc="Module created for script run in IPython")
         else:
             main_mod.__dict__.clear()