# HG changeset patch
# User Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit@gmail.com>
# Date 2018-02-14 12:14:54
# Node ID eb91ffdaaece6596fef9391a203f03442f39446b
# Parent  80301c90a2dc2eca8089873d4057f4e62056a166

py3: slice over bytes to prevent getting ascii values

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2271

diff --git a/mercurial/patch.py b/mercurial/patch.py
--- a/mercurial/patch.py
+++ b/mercurial/patch.py
@@ -1450,7 +1450,7 @@ class binhunk(object):
         dec = []
         line = getline(lr, self.hunk)
         while len(line) > 1:
-            l = line[0]
+            l = line[0:1]
             if l <= 'Z' and l >= 'A':
                 l = ord(l) - ord('A') + 1
             else: