# HG changeset patch
# User Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
# Date 1575098036 18000
# Node ID a50fecefa691c9b72a99e49aa6fe9dd13943c2bf
# Parent  5470e63686ca82ca765b3f2871b92552b5ec0a42
windows: fix an issue causing registry config paths to be ignored on py3

`util.lookupreg()` returns bytes.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7532

diff -r 5470e63686ca -r a50fecefa691 mercurial/scmwindows.py
--- a/mercurial/scmwindows.py	Mon Dec 02 10:18:18 2019 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/scmwindows.py	Sat Nov 30 02:13:56 2019 -0500
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
     value = util.lookupreg(
         b'SOFTWARE\\Mercurial', None, winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
     )
-    if not isinstance(value, str) or not value:
+    if not isinstance(value, bytes) or not value:
         return rcpath
     value = util.localpath(value)
     for p in value.split(pycompat.ospathsep):