# HG changeset patch
# User Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
# Date 1675355731 -3600
# Node ID 80b37d26097f9009a666e1c7906331d7619435f4
# Parent  aea55f2a48b3eb26e5d2ee2ed4e5290e8d4f2d38
safehasattr: pass attribute name as string instead of bytes

This is a step toward replacing `util.safehasattr` usage with plain `hasattr`.
The builtin function behave poorly in Python2 but this was fixed in Python3.

These change are done one by one as they tend to have a small odd to trigger
puzzling breackage.

diff -r aea55f2a48b3 -r 80b37d26097f mercurial/smartset.py
--- a/mercurial/smartset.py	Thu Feb 02 17:35:09 2023 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/smartset.py	Thu Feb 02 17:35:31 2023 +0100
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@
         # try to use our own fast iterator if it exists
         self._trysetasclist()
         if self._ascending:
-            attr = b'fastasc'
+            attr = 'fastasc'
         else:
             attr = b'fastdesc'
         it = getattr(self, attr)