# HG changeset patch
# User Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit@gmail.com>
# Date 2017-03-16 03:43:13
# Node ID 55df8fa15b094361331058de93e18a565a494b4e
# Parent  d1ce2124ec83d3eef61aa0e6b7ef89c738a5d8fe

py3: make sure using bytes status char rather than ascii values

'MAR!?IC' is converted to their ascii values when slicing through it. This
patch uses pycompat.iterbytestr() to get bytes value.

diff --git a/mercurial/commands.py b/mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py
@@ -4754,7 +4754,7 @@ def status(ui, repo, *pats, **opts):
     stat = repo.status(node1, node2, m,
                        'ignored' in show, 'clean' in show, 'unknown' in show,
                        opts.get('subrepos'))
-    changestates = zip(states, 'MAR!?IC', stat)
+    changestates = zip(states, pycompat.iterbytestr('MAR!?IC'), stat)
 
     if (opts.get('all') or opts.get('copies')
         or ui.configbool('ui', 'statuscopies')) and not opts.get('no_status'):