Tags: codeclimate/codeclimate-duplication
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Python3: don't crash on bytes literal What happens is that we try to cast this business from the AST to JSON, which does not work. In python 2, it's just treated like a regular string. But in python 3, we recognize that it is a bytes literal. This implemention casts the bytes literal to a string, which is a type that is serialiable to JSON: ``` >>> (b'hello').decode() 'hello' ``` This will default to utf8, and generally works, although it's possible sometimes it will not work if the source file is encoded differently. https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes.decode An alternative is to cast it to an array of integers, which would also work for structural-comparison purposes: ``` >>> list(b'hello') [104, 101, 108, 108, 111] ```