# HG changeset patch
# User Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit@gmail.com>
# Date 1517815731 -19800
# Node ID 558e01a23f400c78fef7dc3f7216cbfcaebbacd3
# Parent  78b985c75731ba2bdf0a8d99497b14fbb222f080
py3: slice on bytes to prevent getting the ascii values

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2039

diff -r 78b985c75731 -r 558e01a23f40 mercurial/scmutil.py
--- a/mercurial/scmutil.py	Sun Feb 04 20:46:26 2018 +0530
+++ b/mercurial/scmutil.py	Mon Feb 05 12:58:51 2018 +0530
@@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@
             if k == self.firstlinekey:
                 e = "key name '%s' is reserved" % self.firstlinekey
                 raise error.ProgrammingError(e)
-            if not k[0].isalpha():
+            if not k[0:1].isalpha():
                 e = "keys must start with a letter in a key-value file"
                 raise error.ProgrammingError(e)
             if not k.isalnum():