Fix bitcoin.rpc Python3 incompatibility

petertodd · petertodd · commit 8f7052aabc7b · 2013-08-28T01:03:14.000-04:00
diff --git a/bitcoin/rpc.py b/bitcoin/rpc.py
@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ def __init__(self, service_url, service_name=None, timeout=HTTP_TIMEOUT, connect
         self.__id_count = 0
         authpair = "%s:%s" % (self.__url.username, self.__url.password)
         authpair = authpair.encode('utf8')
-        self.__auth_header = "Basic %s" % base64.b64encode(authpair)
-        
-        if connection: 
-            # Callables re-use the connection of the original proxy 
+        self.__auth_header = b"Basic " + base64.b64encode(authpair)
+
+        if connection:
+            # Callables re-use the connection of the original proxy
             self.__conn = connection
         elif self.__url.scheme == 'https':
             self.__conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(self.__url.hostname, port,
