From 01d737d3b25b90c28c6b63f3fb9d12044678c915 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pablo Galindo Salgado <Pablogsal@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 18:01:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gh-131038: Use text=True in subprocesses in
 test_perf_profiler (#137117)

(cherry picked from commit a852c7bdd48979218a0c756ff1a5586d91cff607)
---
 Lib/test/test_perf_profiler.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_perf_profiler.py b/Lib/test/test_perf_profiler.py
index b380e496a2d3cb..f673f4d78d59b2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_perf_profiler.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_perf_profiler.py
@@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ def run_perf(cwd, *args, **env_vars):
         stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
         stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
         env=env,
+        text=True,
     )
     if proc.returncode:
         print(proc.stderr)
@@ -295,10 +296,9 @@ def run_perf(cwd, *args, **env_vars):
         stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
         env=env,
         check=True,
+        text=True,
     )
-    return proc.stdout.decode("utf-8", "replace"), proc.stderr.decode(
-        "utf-8", "replace"
-    )
+    return proc.stdout, proc.stderr
 
 
 @unittest.skipUnless(perf_command_works(), "perf command doesn't work")