From 55dab2f7722b72a8eaa8eb531b3a30d5aa2258a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julien Fortin <julien@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:15:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] python3: remove str.encode(ascii, ignore) call from python3
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because of this line the string was converted to bytes and would
cause side effects.

Signed-off-by: Julien Fortin <julien@cumulusnetworks.com>
---
 ifupdown2/ifupdown/ifupdownmain.py | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ifupdown2/ifupdown/ifupdownmain.py b/ifupdown2/ifupdown/ifupdownmain.py
index f8b5be4..46eee7b 100644
--- a/ifupdown2/ifupdown/ifupdownmain.py
+++ b/ifupdown2/ifupdown/ifupdownmain.py
@@ -1684,7 +1684,6 @@ class ifupdownMain:
                     if not ec:
                         continue
                     else:
-                        ec = ec.encode('ascii','ignore')
                         for ee in ec.split():
                             if ee in new_excludepats:
                                 continue