# HG changeset patch
# User Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
# Date 2023-02-02 16:35:38
# Node ID 921a72735482e30f574f7af09a2a6cc538b3913f
# Parent  80b37d26097f9009a666e1c7906331d7619435f4

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/smartset.py b/mercurial/smartset.py
--- a/mercurial/smartset.py
+++ b/mercurial/smartset.py
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ class addset(abstractsmartset):
         if self._ascending:
             attr = 'fastasc'
         else:
-            attr = b'fastdesc'
+            attr = 'fastdesc'
         it = getattr(self, attr)
         if it is not None:
             return it()