tests fail with pexpect-3.0

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Originally reported by: Matthew Thode (BitBucket: prometheanfire, GitHub: prometheanfire)

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#!python

/usr/lib64/python3.2/site-packages/pexpect/__init__.py:839: TypeError
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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/issue/386

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Original comment by BitBucket: idella5, GitHub: idella5:

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/usr/lib64/python3.2/site-packages/pexpect/init.py:918:

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self = <pexpect.spawn object at 0x138c950>
s = b'\x1b[1m============================= test session starts ==============================\x1b[0m\r\nplatform linux2 -- Python 3.2.5 -- pytest-2.4.2\r\n'
direction = 'read'

def _log(self, s, direction):
    if self.logfile is not None:

      self.logfile.write(s)

E TypeError: must be str, not bytes

/usr/lib64/python3.2/site-packages/pexpect/init.py:839: TypeError

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Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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I installed pexpect-3.0 and ran pytest's own test suite successfully.

Please provide a way to reproduce the problem and how you invoke py.test and open a new issue.

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Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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fix pexpect-3.0 compatibility for pytest's own tests.
(fixes issue386)