# HG changeset patch
# User Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
# Date 2023-02-03 01:57:49
# Node ID 2704dc40cf10931cb6985bf9859b4f38da313a8e
# Parent  17a86f6500590c9acb459cb31291185f99072b58

safehasattr: pass attribute name as string instead of bytes

This is a step toward replacing `util.safehasattr` usage with plain `hasattr`.
The builtin function behave poorly in Python2 but this was fixed in Python3.

These change are done one by one as they tend to have a small odd to trigger
puzzling breackage.

diff --git a/mercurial/debugcommands.py b/mercurial/debugcommands.py
--- a/mercurial/debugcommands.py
+++ b/mercurial/debugcommands.py
@@ -1718,7 +1718,7 @@ def debugformat(ui, repo, **opts):
     if fm.isplain():
 
         def formatvalue(value):
-            if util.safehasattr(value, b'startswith'):
+            if util.safehasattr(value, 'startswith'):
                 return value
             if value:
                 return b'yes'