The decode is used to workaround this:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-September/014709.html
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_bsddb3.py b/Lib/test/test_bsddb3.py
index 8bba169..41d0e21 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_bsddb3.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_bsddb3.py
@@ -57,7 +57,9 @@
os.getpid()))
# Please leave this print in, having this show up in the buildbots
# makes diagnosing problems a lot easier.
- print(db.DB_VERSION_STRING, file=sys.stderr)
+ # The decode is used to workaround this:
+ # http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-September/014709.html
+ print(db.DB_VERSION_STRING.decode("iso8859-1"), file=sys.stderr)
print('Test path prefix: ', test_all.get_test_path_prefix(), file=sys.stderr)
try:
run_unittest(test_all.suite(module_prefix='bsddb.test.',