Fix missing version string when Popen communicate returns byte strings.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index f8d9f113..1d35e9ac 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ APPNAME = 'libdcp'
 this_version = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split('git tag -l --points-at HEAD'), stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
 last_version = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split('git describe --tags --abbrev=0'), stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
 
+if isinstance(this_version, bytes):
+    this_version = this_version.decode('UTF-8')
+if isinstance(last_version, bytes):
+    last_version = last_version.decode('UTF-8')
+
 if this_version == '':
     VERSION = '%sdevel' % last_version[1:].strip()
 else: