# HG changeset patch
# User Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit@gmail.com>
# Date 2018-02-26 11:55:46
# Node ID 588048a6a8d34a73e9e7da3fb75da3ceefb544a5
# Parent  3d58037c6ec0bce3222606e3d95d29d48bb9ff1f

py3: slice over bytes or use .startswith() to prevent getting ascii values

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2457

diff --git a/mercurial/archival.py b/mercurial/archival.py
--- a/mercurial/archival.py
+++ b/mercurial/archival.py
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ class tarit(object):
 
         def taropen(mode, name='', fileobj=None):
             if kind == 'gz':
-                mode = mode[0]
+                mode = mode[0:1]
                 if not fileobj:
                     fileobj = open(name, mode + 'b')
                 gzfileobj = self.GzipFileWithTime(name, mode + 'b',
diff --git a/mercurial/patch.py b/mercurial/patch.py
--- a/mercurial/patch.py
+++ b/mercurial/patch.py
@@ -2518,7 +2518,7 @@ def difflabel(func, *args, **kw):
                                 yield (t, l)
                         else:
                             for token in tabsplitter.findall(stripline):
-                                if '\t' == token[0]:
+                                if token.startswith('\t'):
                                     yield (token, 'diff.tab')
                                 else:
                                     yield (token, label)