commit 249d50a25f0d8ad33efa0f3dbd45eec06e7dcdf3
author Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> Tue Aug 05 05:51:20 2003 +0000
committer Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> Tue Aug 05 05:51:20 2003 +0000
tree 91ba658cca013c07d78ba6180dc5cd3832a84850
parent 5d9c636faffb9b7adec638fc48ac6a97a3a4b6b9

Make sure eol_convention is an ASCII string. Fixes #774680.
Will backport to 2.3.

Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py b/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
index 3e1f87d..0c3ae7f 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
@@ -252,6 +252,9 @@
         firsteol = self.eol_re.search(chars)
         if firsteol:
             self.eol_convention = firsteol.group(0)
+            if isinstance(self.eol_convention, unicode):
+                # Make sure it is an ASCII string
+                self.eol_convention = self.eol_convention.encode("ascii")
             chars = self.eol_re.sub(r"\n", chars)
 
         self.text.delete("1.0", "end")