* apt/debfile.py:

  - remove bogus comment
* python/tag.cc:
  - allow "bytes" type in TagSecNew (for python3)

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/apt/debfile.py b/apt/debfile.py
index 7728ed21..25a45e98 100644
--- a/apt/debfile.py
+++ b/apt/debfile.py
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ class DebPackage(object):
         self.filename = filename
         self._debfile = apt_inst.DebFile(open(self.filename))
         control = self._debfile.control.extractdata("control")
-        # hm, 'replace' is probably better but python2.6 test fail with that
         self._sections = apt_pkg.TagSection(control)
         self.pkgname = self._sections["Package"]
 
diff --git a/python/tag.cc b/python/tag.cc
index 97039bc4..44cd06af 100644
--- a/python/tag.cc
+++ b/python/tag.cc
@@ -344,8 +344,12 @@ static PyObject *TagFileJump(PyObject *Self,PyObject *Args)
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 static PyObject *TagSecNew(PyTypeObject *type,PyObject *Args,PyObject *kwds) {
    char *Data;
+   int Len;
    char *kwlist[] = {"text", 0};
-   if (PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(Args,kwds,"s",kwlist,&Data) == 0)
+
+   // this allows reading "byte" types from python3 - but we don't
+   // make (much) use of it yet
+   if (PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(Args,kwds,"s#",kwlist,&Data,&Len) == 0)
       return 0;
 
    // Create the object..