restartcheck: fix python 3 bytestring breakage #50757
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In python 2, bytes is an alias for str and b'foo' == 'foo' so this code
used to work, but in python 3 bytes is a separate type, b'foo' != 'foo'
so pth.startswith() errors because of the type mismatch:
"Passed invalid arguments: startswith first arg must be bytes or a
tuple of bytes, not str."
Fix this by converting bytes to an unicode string so the code works in
both v2 and v3.
Signed-off-by: Ioan-Adrian Ratiu adrian.ratiu@ni.com
What does this PR do?
See above.
What issues does this PR fix or reference?
No github issue: it was found during downstream NILinuxRT testing.
Previous Behavior
Function restartcheck was run only on python 2.
New Behavior
Updated to python 3 and restartcheck broke because of the str/bytes type difference.
Tests written?
No
Commits signed with GPG?
No