commit c8dcfb6cece2da41d7b86879af1f4b81f98d70df
author Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> Fri Feb 13 10:50:01 2009 +0000
committer Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> Fri Feb 13 10:50:01 2009 +0000
tree b3b568eb77b87c263cc5e042435e84c1f6b19681
parent 35e2c4e67adee5910819b95297d19285270eb7fe

part of #3613: fix get_host_info() usage of base64.encodestring().

Lib/xmlrpc/client.py

diff --git a/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py b/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py
index e66ee84..86988de 100644
--- a/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py
+++ b/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py
@@ -1161,7 +1161,8 @@
 
         if auth:
             import base64
-            auth = base64.encodestring(urllib.parse.unquote(auth))
+            auth = urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes(auth)
+            auth = base64.encodestring(auth).decode("utf-8")
             auth = "".join(auth.split()) # get rid of whitespace
             extra_headers = [
                 ("Authorization", "Basic " + auth)