# HG changeset patch
# User Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org>
# Date 2017-03-26 07:16:45
# Node ID f2b334e6c7e07e6f1759103940519e3344bb059d
# Parent  6d30699729dd716c30af0f19763db79f0d8fa599

py3: use bytes() to cast to immutable bytes in pure.bdiff.bdiff()

diff --git a/mercurial/pure/bdiff.py b/mercurial/pure/bdiff.py
--- a/mercurial/pure/bdiff.py
+++ b/mercurial/pure/bdiff.py
@@ -54,12 +54,9 @@ def _normalizeblocks(a, b, blocks):
     r.append(prev)
     return r
 
-def _tostring(c):
-    return str(c)
-
 def bdiff(a, b):
-    a = _tostring(a).splitlines(True)
-    b = _tostring(b).splitlines(True)
+    a = bytes(a).splitlines(True)
+    b = bytes(b).splitlines(True)
 
     if not a:
         s = "".join(b)