error saving pcolormesh with shading=gouraud to eps

[bendichter]

Bug report

Bug summary
I have a pcolormesh that has shading='gouraud', and I am trying to save it to an .eps. Saving it to a pdf works fine, but trying to save to an eps gives an error.

Code for reproduction

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
plt.pcolormesh(np.random.randn(10,10), shading='gouraud')
plt.gcf().savefig('test.eps')

Actual outcome

    168 def quote_ps_string(s):
    169     "Quote dangerous characters of S for use in a PostScript string constant."
--> 170     s=s.replace("\\", "\\\\")
    171     s=s.replace("(", "\\(")
    172     s=s.replace(")", "\\)")

TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

Matplotlib version
matplotlib 1.5.1
'3.5.1 |Anaconda 2.4.1 (x86_64)| (default, Dec 7 2015, 11:24:55) \n[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5577)]'
OS X

I fixing this might just require adding a 'b' before these strings.

[tacaswell]

Thanks for reporting this.

I believe this was fixed in 1.5.2 via 97953f3 in #6282 and a duplicate of #6226

Can you update to a newer version of mpl?

Closing as already fixed, please ping to be re-opened if you can reproduce this with a newer version of mpl.

[bendichter]

yup, that worked. Thanks!