From 99387f9572df98af5612ae59644db76a3207ebf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:30:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] * Fix python3 error

---
 spacy/cfile.pyx | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spacy/cfile.pyx b/spacy/cfile.pyx
index 89e22d413..01db25bcb 100644
--- a/spacy/cfile.pyx
+++ b/spacy/cfile.pyx
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from libc.stdio cimport fopen, fclose, fread, fwrite, FILE
 cdef class CFile:
     def __init__(self, loc, mode):
         if isinstance(mode, unicode):
-            mode_str = mode.decode('ascii')
+            mode_str = mode.encode('ascii')
         cdef bytes bytes_loc = loc.encode('utf8') if type(loc) == unicode else loc
         self.fp = fopen(<char*>bytes_loc, mode)
         if self.fp == NULL: