commit 74596a887aff06d7ec45957672126881f1865cf2
author Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Wed Jul 30 18:33:13 2014 +0300
committer Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Wed Jul 30 18:33:13 2014 +0300
tree e1d09c27b18bb00e7683df8575a7c95c0c8b0f99
parent 95a9e0bf8c2862ba3bfec4d5e35ef982521fe1e2

Issue #21580: Now Tkinter correctly handles bytes arguments passed to Tk.
In particular this allows to initialize images from binary data.

Modules/_tkinter.c

diff --git a/Modules/_tkinter.c b/Modules/_tkinter.c
index e3d3757..83161fe 100644
--- a/Modules/_tkinter.c
+++ b/Modules/_tkinter.c
@@ -881,8 +881,8 @@
     int overflow;
 
     if (PyBytes_Check(value))
-        return Tcl_NewStringObj(PyBytes_AS_STRING(value),
-                                PyBytes_GET_SIZE(value));
+        return Tcl_NewByteArrayObj((unsigned char *)PyBytes_AS_STRING(value),
+                                   PyBytes_GET_SIZE(value));
     else if (PyBool_Check(value))
         return Tcl_NewBooleanObj(PyObject_IsTrue(value));
     else if (PyLong_CheckExact(value) &&