Fixed io types to make tests work on PY2 once again.py3

Now it's about going through PY3 issues

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/git/objects/submodule/base.py b/git/objects/submodule/base.py
index 69bf748a..0fb3f35f 100644
--- a/git/objects/submodule/base.py
+++ b/git/objects/submodule/base.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from .util import (
     find_first_remote_branch
 )
 from git.objects.util import Traversable
-from io import StringIO                   # need a dict to set bloody .name field
+from io import BytesIO                   # need a dict to set bloody .name field
 from git.util import (
     Iterable,
     join_path_native,
@@ -187,8 +187,8 @@ class Submodule(util.IndexObject, Iterable, Traversable):
 
     @classmethod
     def _sio_modules(cls, parent_commit):
-        """:return: Configuration file as StringIO - we only access it through the respective blob's data"""
-        sio = StringIO(parent_commit.tree[cls.k_modules_file].data_stream.read())
+        """:return: Configuration file as BytesIO - we only access it through the respective blob's data"""
+        sio = BytesIO(parent_commit.tree[cls.k_modules_file].data_stream.read())
         sio.name = cls.k_modules_file
         return sio