# HG changeset patch
# User Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit@gmail.com>
# Date 2017-03-07 19:10:15
# Node ID f8e06821c1188fb878c8176d331eb73c191f9309
# Parent  4cc3797aa59cd3ebcdcc85e1668d973a3e72ecf4

store: slice over a bytestring to get characters instead of ascii values

On Python 2,

>>> a = b'abc'
>>> a[1]
'b'

Whereas on python 3,

>>> a = b'abc'
>>> a[1]
98
>>> a[1:2]
b'b'

This does not change behaviour on python 2.

diff --git a/mercurial/store.py b/mercurial/store.py
--- a/mercurial/store.py
+++ b/mercurial/store.py
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ def _buildencodefun():
     e = '_'
     if pycompat.ispy3:
         xchr = lambda x: bytes([x])
-        asciistr = [bytes(a) for a in range(127)]
+        asciistr = [bytes([a]) for a in range(127)]
     else:
         xchr = chr
         asciistr = map(chr, xrange(127))
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ def _buildencodefun():
                     pass
             else:
                 raise KeyError
-    return (lambda s: ''.join([cmap[c] for c in s]),
+    return (lambda s: ''.join([cmap[s[c:c + 1]] for c in xrange(len(s))]),
             lambda s: ''.join(list(decode(s))))
 
 _encodefname, _decodefname = _buildencodefun()