Fix libc_ver(): libc_ver() was reading sys.executable
in binary mode and comparing the content to strings,
which failed. Now the bytes get decoded into unicode
using latin-1 (the comparison compares ASCII strings
only anyway, and we don't want the decoding to fail).
diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index ed5d22d..bd9efe6 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -145,12 +145,12 @@
# able to open symlinks for reading
executable = os.path.realpath(executable)
f = open(executable,'rb')
- binary = f.read(chunksize)
+ binary = f.read(chunksize).decode('latin-1')
pos = 0
while 1:
m = _libc_search.search(binary,pos)
if not m:
- binary = f.read(chunksize)
+ binary = f.read(chunksize).decode('latin-1')
if not binary:
break
pos = 0