# HG changeset patch
# User Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
# Date 2021-03-08 21:55:39
# Node ID d5d9177c0045d206db575bae6daa98e2cb2fe5bc
# Parent  25392c48da8aae4d2151c8925f053fa99364a3e8

localrepo: fix conversion of exceptions to strings flagged by pytype

This is the same as e571fec5b606.  I assume the 3 similar uses of `bytestr` in
`__getitem__()` are OK (even though pytype also flags them), because there is
apparently test coverage for 2 of the 3 cases.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10131

diff --git a/mercurial/localrepo.py b/mercurial/localrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ def makelocalrepository(baseui, path, in
         except ValueError as e:
             # Can be raised on Python 3.8 when path is invalid.
             raise error.Abort(
-                _(b'invalid path %s: %s') % (path, pycompat.bytestr(e))
+                _(b'invalid path %s: %s') % (path, stringutil.forcebytestr(e))
             )
 
         raise error.RepoError(_(b'repository %s not found') % path)