From: Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 22:42:32 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: base64.encodestring needs a bytearray in python3
X-Git-Url: http://woldlab.caltech.edu/gitweb/?p=htsworkflow.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=21b87d2ee5cd1c14c327b0fbaafba7f244dfc8c5

base64.encodestring needs a bytearray in python3

I needed to use int2byte to safely replace the char()
I was using in python2.
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diff --git a/htsworkflow/util/api.py b/htsworkflow/util/api.py
index cd7939a..e631fa9 100644
--- a/htsworkflow/util/api.py
+++ b/htsworkflow/util/api.py
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 """Common functions for accessing the HTS Workflow REST API
 """
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import base64
 from six.moves import configparser
+from six import int2byte
 import random
 import logging
 
@@ -172,9 +175,9 @@ def make_django_secret_key(size=216):
     chars = []
     while bits > 0:
         byte = bits & 0xff
-        chars.append(chr(byte))
+        chars.append(int2byte(byte))
         bits >>= 8
-    return base64.encodestring("".join(chars)).strip()
+    return base64.encodestring(b"".join(chars)).strip()
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     from optparse import OptionParser