From 0eb40c6346ba5b5ed1bdf0710c513c39f7171ccd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: justvanrossum <justvanrossum@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:48:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] make poor old afmLib work on py3

---
 Lib/fontTools/afmLib.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/afmLib.py b/Lib/fontTools/afmLib.py
index ce52893ea..5df1c1063 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/afmLib.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/afmLib.py
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ class AFM(object):
 
 def readlines(path):
 	f = open(path, 'rb')
-	data = f.read()
+	data = f.read().decode("ascii")
 	f.close()
 	# read any text file, regardless whether it's formatted for Mac, Unix or Dos
 	sep = ""
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ def readlines(path):
 def writelines(path, lines, sep='\r'):
 	f = open(path, 'wb')
 	for line in lines:
-		f.write(line + sep)
+		f.write((line + sep).encode("ascii"))
 	f.close()