# HG changeset patch
# User Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit@gmail.com>
# Date 2018-04-10 13:25:35
# Node ID fa6cdd6668e1531e8d8ec99c467081b08850adce
# Parent  3740d1abde449286924ec8d9298999d304208390

py3: use .startswith() instead of bytes[0]

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3214

diff --git a/hgext/mq.py b/hgext/mq.py
--- a/hgext/mq.py
+++ b/hgext/mq.py
@@ -658,10 +658,11 @@ class queue(object):
         if not patchguards:
             return True, None
         guards = self.active()
-        exactneg = [g for g in patchguards if g[0] == '-' and g[1:] in guards]
+        exactneg = [g for g in patchguards
+                    if g.startswith('-') and g[1:] in guards]
         if exactneg:
             return False, repr(exactneg[0])
-        pos = [g for g in patchguards if g[0] == '+']
+        pos = [g for g in patchguards if g.startswith('+')]
         exactpos = [g for g in pos if g[1:] in guards]
         if pos:
             if exactpos: