[New-bugs-announce] [issue21431] 3.4.1rc1 test_pydoc fails: pydoc_data.topics.topics values are type "bytes" not "str"

[Ned Deily]

New submission from Ned Deily:

Something went wrong with the update of pydoc_data topics for 3.4.1rc1. As can be seen in http://hg.python.org/releasing/3.4.1/rev/c67a19e11a71, the values for the topics dict should be strings but were updated as bytes.  This causes pydoc topics searches to fail.  The process problem needs to be fixed for 3.4.1 final.

An example:

$ /usr/local/bin/pydoc3.4 def
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/pydoc3.4", line 5, in <module>
    pydoc.cli()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/pydoc.py", line 2580, in cli
    help.help(arg)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/pydoc.py", line 1860, in help
    elif request in self.keywords: self.showtopic(request)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/pydoc.py", line 1941, in showtopic
    pager(doc.strip() + '\n')
TypeError: can't concat bytes to str

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assignee: larry
components: Build
messages: 217887
nosy: georg.brandl, larry, ned.deily
priority: release blocker
severity: normal
status: open
title: 3.4.1rc1 test_pydoc fails: pydoc_data.topics.topics values are type "bytes" not "str"
versions: Python 3.4

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