Comment 13 for bug 1016380

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Edward Donovan (edward.donovan) wrote :

So, this looks like a python3 porting issue. According to comments like this:

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5184483/python-typeerror-on-regex

what's needed is to call 're.compile' with a 'b' flag, for bytes. I'm not familiar with the code enough, to know whether we just can sprinkle that around in all the places where apport's report.py calls 're.compile'. Does anyone have a good guess? Thanks.