# HG changeset patch
# User Augie Fackler <raf@durin42.com>
# Date 2017-05-28 19:49:29
# Node ID d110fb58424c206f38deea4e944121c87cf60d9e
# Parent  d3e1c5b4986c3c7306bf3a22bad0653721f052ee

help: convert flag default to bytes portably

We were relying on %s using repr on (for example) integer values. Work
around that for Python 3 while preserving all the prior magic.

diff --git a/mercurial/help.py b/mercurial/help.py
--- a/mercurial/help.py
+++ b/mercurial/help.py
@@ -84,7 +84,11 @@ def optrst(header, options, verbose):
             so = '-' + shortopt
         lo = '--' + longopt
         if default:
-            desc += _(" (default: %s)") % default
+            # default is of unknown type, and in Python 2 we abused
+            # the %s-shows-repr property to handle integers etc. To
+            # match that behavior on Python 3, we do str(default) and
+            # then convert it to bytes.
+            desc += _(" (default: %s)") % pycompat.bytestr(default)
 
         if isinstance(default, list):
             lo += " %s [+]" % optlabel