3K: setup.py: really fix svn_version()

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index faa8ed2ee..39d81a6a1 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -84,7 +84,9 @@ def svn_version():
     r = re.compile('Revision: ([0-9]+)')
     svnver = ""
 
-    for line in out.split('\n'.encode()):
+    out = out.decode()
+
+    for line in out.split('\n'):
         m = r.match(line.strip())
         if m:
             svnver = m.group(1)