# HG changeset patch
# User Augie Fackler <augie@google.com>
# Date 2019-01-16 16:01:45
# Node ID d08c816a11d3ce4478958261976e6439c03e1e88
# Parent  ebda5d4265ec759df04c1b95ce3bc128063d6c8b

shallowutil: slice off a byte instead of subscripting

This behaves identically on Python 2 and 3.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5607

diff --git a/hgext/remotefilelog/shallowutil.py b/hgext/remotefilelog/shallowutil.py
--- a/hgext/remotefilelog/shallowutil.py
+++ b/hgext/remotefilelog/shallowutil.py
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ def _parsepackmeta(metabuf):
     offset = 0
     buflen = len(metabuf)
     while buflen - offset >= 3:
-        key = metabuf[offset]
+        key = metabuf[offset:offset + 1]
         offset += 1
         metalen = struct.unpack_from('!H', metabuf, offset)[0]
         offset += 2