diff -r 3bf4b762537e -r 301ef65e8ebb mercurial/osutil.c
--- a/mercurial/osutil.c	Sat Oct 08 21:57:55 2016 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/osutil.c	Sat Oct 08 21:58:55 2016 +0200
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@
 		pypath = PySequence_GetItem(names, i);
 		if (!pypath)
 			goto bail;
-		path = PyString_AsString(pypath);
+		path = PyBytes_AsString(pypath);
 		if (path == NULL) {
 			Py_DECREF(pypath);
 			PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "not a string");