accept bytes for the AST 'string' type

This is a temporary kludge and all is well in 3.3.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Parser/asdl_c.py b/Parser/asdl_c.py
index 8a7f8aec7f..249e18ddf4 100755
--- a/Parser/asdl_c.py
+++ b/Parser/asdl_c.py
@@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ static int obj2ast_identifier(PyObject* obj, PyObject** out, PyArena* arena)
 
 static int obj2ast_string(PyObject* obj, PyObject** out, PyArena* arena)
 {
-    if (!PyUnicode_CheckExact(obj)) {
+    if (!PyUnicode_CheckExact(obj) && !PyBytes_CheckExact(obj)) {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "AST string must be of type str");
         return 1;
     }