From: Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 20:37:14 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: make version utf/python3 friendly
X-Git-Url: http://woldlab.caltech.edu/gitweb/?p=htsworkflow.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=98a14df1c83f5a4b233c2265d99d279e6cd8d2d5

make version utf/python3 friendly
---

diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
index 4856928..083359e 100644
--- a/version.py
+++ b/version.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ def call_git_describe(abbrev=4):
                   stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
         p.stderr.close()
         line = p.stdout.readlines()[0]
-        return line.strip()
+        return line.strip().decode('utf-8')
 
     except:
         return None
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def call_git_describe(abbrev=4):
 
 def read_release_version():
     try:
-        f = open("RELEASE-VERSION", "r")
+        f = open("RELEASE-VERSION", "rt")
 
         try:
             version = f.readlines()[0]
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def read_release_version():
 
 
 def write_release_version(version):
-    f = open("RELEASE-VERSION", "w")
+    f = open("RELEASE-VERSION", "wt")
     f.write("%s\n" % version)
     f.close()