From 083e20c8e1ed95b98e9b1f02173eccb15f307424 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:30:49 +0000
Subject: Forgot one.  This makes test_urllib2.py pass.

---
 Lib/base64.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/base64.py b/Lib/base64.py
index 1b9f560..e100e0f 100755
--- a/Lib/base64.py
+++ b/Lib/base64.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def b64encode(s, altchars=None):
     The encoded byte string is returned.
     """
     if not isinstance(s, bytes):
-        s = bytes(s)
+        s = bytes(s, "ascii")
     # Strip off the trailing newline
     encoded = binascii.b2a_base64(s)[:-1]
     if altchars is not None:
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