From e0e2542ed0b16709473fad36871d4055e38feed7 2013-10-04 23:54:36
From: MinRK <benjaminrk@gmail.com>
Date: 2013-10-04 23:54:36
Subject: [PATCH] elementtree.tostring is always bytes
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diff --git a/IPython/parallel/apps/winhpcjob.py b/IPython/parallel/apps/winhpcjob.py
index 3175339..92f8603 100644
--- a/IPython/parallel/apps/winhpcjob.py
+++ b/IPython/parallel/apps/winhpcjob.py
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ class WinHPCJob(Configurable):
         """Return the string representation of the job description XML."""
         root = self.as_element()
         indent(root)
-        txt = ET.tostring(root, encoding="utf-8")
+        txt = ET.tostring(root, encoding="utf-8").decode('utf-8')
         # Now remove the tokens used to order the attributes.
         txt = re.sub(r'_[A-Z]_','',txt)
         txt = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>\n' + txt