From 1b261dff3e24cbe063bed2e09f2f80061293004f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:35:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Make this work on Mac as well (where Type and Creator are
 bytes instead of str).

---
 Lib/binhex.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/binhex.py b/Lib/binhex.py
index 0dfa475f449..a56a8c85b1c 100644
--- a/Lib/binhex.py
+++ b/Lib/binhex.py
@@ -192,7 +192,12 @@ def _writeinfo(self, name, finfo):
         if nl > 63:
             raise Error, 'Filename too long'
         d = bytes([nl]) + name.encode("latin-1") + b'\0'
-        d2 = bytes(finfo.Type, "ascii") + bytes(finfo.Creator, "ascii")
+        tp, cr = finfo.Type, finfo.Creator
+        if isinstance(tp, str):
+            tp = tp.encode("latin-1")
+        if isinstance(cr, str):
+            cr = cr.encode("latin-1")
+        d2 = tp + cr
 
         # Force all structs to be packed with big-endian
         d3 = struct.pack('>h', finfo.Flags)